Books like Just Add Glitter
By Angela DiTerlizzi
For the kid who thinks more is always better — more glitter, more stickers, more everything — this book turns that impulse into a gloriously messy adventure. Sparkly, silly, and a little chaotic, with rhyming lines that build like a sugar rush.
A marker-obsessed girl talks her mom into buying washable markers, then scented ones, then five super-indelible never-come-off markers — and colors herself from head to toe.
An endlessly imaginative girl transforms into robots, trees, and countless other characters through rhyming games, while her messy room and her mother's patience wait in the background.
A little witch determined to save her town's Halloween parade from rain uses her magic to change the storm — first to cats and dogs, then hats and clogs, then bats and frogs.
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 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 single yellow dot invites the reader to press it, tap it, and tilt the book — and with each turn of the page, the dots multiply, scatter, and change color right before your eyes.
A picture-book biography of the real writer and illustrator Edward Gorey, tracing how a self-taught reader who skipped grades and wore a giant fur coat grew into one of literature's strangest, most inventive storytellers.
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.
A book of playful nonsense declares that stars are made of lemon juice, elbows grow on tickle trees, and rain makes applesauce — pure silly talk stacked line upon line.
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.
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.
