Books like Just Me
By Marie Hall Ets
For the kid who can't walk past a duck or a horse without trying to move just like it, this is basically a permission slip. Playful, physical, and quiet at the same time — a picture book made for moving your whole body.
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 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.
Two friends imagine what kind of dogs they'd be — one dreams up being a big dog, the other little — as their game of pretend becomes a way of working out who gets to decide what happens next.
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.
Using just five words - apple, pear, orange, bear, and there - a bear juggles, poses, and transforms across each page in playful combinations of color and shape.
A cat gets a cupcake and asks for sprinkles to go with it, setting off a chain of requests and small messes that just keeps looping back on itself.
An imaginative boy dreams up the ultimate house, sketching in a racetrack, a flying playroom, and a gigantic slide as his ideas grow wilder with every rhyme.
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 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.
