Books like I'm the Best Artist in the Ocean!
By Kevin Sherry
For the kid who announces their own superlatives at full volume, this squid's swagger will feel like looking in a mirror. Loud, funny, and gleefully over-the-top.
An author sits down to write a story about a mouse in a house, but her cat Chester keeps grabbing a red marker to rewrite the pages his way — turning the book into a battle over who's really in charge.
A giant squid swims through the ocean bragging that he's bigger than the shrimp, the crab, and the clams — until something much, much bigger shows up.
Two unseen voices look at the same picture and argue back and forth — one insists it's a duck, the other swears it's a rabbit — and neither one budges.
A little fly who can already walk on walls, see in every direction, and fly keeps a diary of her big dream: becoming a full-fledged superhero, alongside best friends Worm and Spider.
A kid dreams up the ultimate shortcut to awesome: a magical Robo-Sauce that turns squishy little humans into giant, laser-eyed, rocket-footed robots — no beans, baths, or bedtime required.
A little old lady complains that her house is too small, so a wise old man tells her to bring in the hen, goat, pig, and cow one by one — with noisy, crowded results.
A picture book imagines what would happen if animals wore clothes — a snake loses its clothes, a billy goat eats them, and a walrus stays soggy in a wet suit that never dries.
A boy named Duncan opens his crayon box to find a stack of complaint letters — Blue is exhausted, Black feels misused, and Orange and Yellow are fighting over who's really the color of the sun.
The messiest monster in Booville and her fussiest, cleanest neighbor argue constantly — until Harry Beastie's wild Halloween party throws these two feuding creatures together.
A boy named Bobby is convinced his loud, yelling teacher is a real monster — until he runs into her at his favorite park and starts to see her differently.
A boy who refuses to behave gets exactly what his mother threatened: an enormous pet blue whale he must haul everywhere, including school, with predictably disastrous results.
