Books like It's Raining Bats & Frogs
By Rebecca Colby
For the kid who thinks every problem deserves a bigger, weirder solution, Delia's parade-saving magic is a delight. Playful, spooky-but-sweet, full of rhyming surprises.
A garden fills up with counting fun as a mole digs a hole, parrots pull up carrots, bears pick pears, and bees prune trees with tiny shears — one busy number at a time.
A girl named Sally travels to town walking backward and upside down, picking up a silly pig, a silly dog, and other funny friends who join her topsy-turvy parade.
A gardener finally grows the vegetable patch of his dreams, but three hungry bunnies keep sneaking in every night — so he builds fence after fence to outsmart them.
A witch and her cat head off to a Halloween party with friends, where the spell they all cast together goes off with a loud, unexpected bang.
A team of kid inventors heads to the zoo armed with zany traps and rhyming plans, determined to outsmart and catch the rainbow-maned unicorn.
Four tiny books in one: alligators march through the alphabet, a boy named Johnny counts his ever-growing pile of visitors, a boy named Pierre refuses to care about anything, and a hungry someone eats chicken soup with rice in every month of the year.
A narwhal accidentally pops his best friend's bubble with his tusk-tooth, then turns Jelly's disappointment into a joyful search for every kind of bubble the ocean has to offer.
On the drought-stricken Kapiti Plain, a herdsman named Ki-pat sets out to bring the rain back, told in a cumulative rhyme that builds line by line like The House That Jack Built.
A little girl with a big imagination gets a mysterious package in the mail and starts sprinkling glitter on everything, until glitter is everywhere — and she and her best pal start disappearing into the sparkle.
A paint-happy kid gets banned from painting after covering everything from ceiling to floor, then finds a wildly funny way to keep creating anyway — using every color on hand.
A little boy heads outdoors and imitates the walk of every animal he meets, trying out hops, waddles, and gallops before finally moving like himself.
