Books like Lady Liberty's Holiday
By Jen Arena
For the kid who loves road trips, landmarks, and the idea that even a monument might just need a break, this one turns a famous statue into a restless traveler. Breezy, playful, and patriotic without being stiff about it.
Three dust bunnies named Ed, Ned, and Ted love rhyming games — bug, rug, mug, hug — but a fourth named Bob keeps breaking the pattern, trying to warn them about a broom-wielding danger heading their way.
A boy named Ned races a thousand miles to a surprise party, and every stroke of good luck — a borrowed airplane, a handy parachute — flips into disaster and back again.
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 gentle troll sets off through the woods to bring his mother milk, but the simple errand turns into a winding adventure when he meets Mymble, who has lost her sister Little My.
An elephant named Horace turns eleven and throws a costume party for his exotically dressed animal friends, but when it's time for the feast, someone has already eaten it all.
Two little cave rock formations sit through millions of years of history — trilobites, dinosaurs, ground sloths, bats — growing so slowly that only their friendship stays constant, drip by drip.
A worm records his everyday life in diary entries — playing with friends, going to school, and never having to take a bath — while figuring out the ups and downs of being small in a very big world.
When evening falls, a crowd of bats flutters from the rafters to fill a moonlit stadium, watching their own all-stars play a topsy-turvy game of baseball.
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.
Every bird has an egg to hatch except Duck — until he finds one big, speckled, and completely odd, and sits down to hatch it despite the other birds' teasing.
While the Petersons are away, their house decides it deserves a vacation too — but its rooms can't agree on a destination until the sunporch votes for the beach and leads the way.
A boy named Buzz searches for something to catch for the Amazing Pet Show, and a hungry fly follows a smell — and the two strike up a friendship no one expects.
