Books like It's Raining Bats & Frogs
By Rebecca Colby
In It's Raining Bats & Frogs, Delia keeps trying to fix the rain with magic, and every new spell rhymes with the last, so your kid starts guessing what's coming before the page turns. It's silly, it's a little spooky, and it never slows down. The books below are for kids who want another storm like this one.
A group of determined kids builds traps of dental floss webs and drool to catch the elusive tooth fairy before she vanishes with a lost tooth — but she's just too fast.
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.
If your kid loves the parade of silly animals joining Delia, Silly Sally by Audrey Wood builds its whole trip to town the same way.
The sound effects do the work here just like Delia's rain spells. Muncha! Muncha! Muncha! by Candace Fleming keeps the chase going until the garden's completely wrecked.
Another witch with a plan that doesn't quite go right, though Meg and Mog by Helen Nicoll lets the spell bang instead of pour down rain.
How to Catch a Unicorn by Adam Wallace keeps the same problem-solving-through-silliness setup, just with traps instead of spells.
Less plot, more pure sound. Nutshell Library by Maurice Sendak is four tiny rhyming rides instead of one storm to solve.
Much gentler than a rain-turned-bats problem, Bubbles, Bubbles, Bubbles by Casandra Merritt is really just two friends noticing something small together.
Your kid pokes and pats the page here instead of just listening. Mix It Up! by Hervé Tullet hands them the magic wand this time.
The rain problem gets solved for good, and Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain by Verna Aardema builds toward that relief one added line at a time.
Delia's magic spirals out of control the exact way glitter does in Just Add Glitter by Angela DiTerlizzi, right up to the point of too much.
The same singsong stubbornness, only louder. In I Ain't Gonna Paint No More! by Karen Beaumont a kid keeps painting no matter what Mama says, and the rhymes just keep coming.
