Books like Little Pea
By Amy Krouse Rosenthal
For the household stuck in a nightly standoff over the plate, Little Pea flips the whole dinnertime battle on its head and makes it funny again. Playful, warm, and gently silly — a family dinner scene with a wink.
A bossy big sister bunny plans an angel surprise cake with raspberry-fluff icing for Grandma's birthday, but her little brother Max keeps trying to add his own messy touches instead.
A cookie-loving boy named Alfie tries grabbing, fishing, and even dressing up as a cookie inspector to get one of his mommy's cookies — but the trick turns out to be much simpler than any of his schemes.
A boy races home from shopping and slams the front door shut, accidentally locking his mom and baby sister outside without a key — but he's got a plan.
A small critter puts off bedtime any way he can — dodging the bath, fussing over his jammies — until he finally has to admit he's sleepy.
A picnic goes sideways when rain and stormy winds send an umbrella (and Mouse!) flying into a tree — one friend calls it good news, the other bad, all the way through.
A parade of baby animals learns words for everyday things — a ball, a dog, a moon — but every single one insists on calling it all MAMA instead.
A boy who refuses to behave gets exactly what his mother threatened: an enormous pet blue whale he must haul everywhere, including school, with predictably disastrous results.
A busy apple farmer named Annie spends her day picking apples, sorting the best ones, baking cider, sauce, muffins, and pies, then selling her harvest at the farmers' market.
A frog who can't wait to play in the snow keeps bounding outside half-dressed, and his mother calls him back again and again to put on everything he forgot.
One overworked mother cooks endless separate meals as each of her seven picky children demands their own special food — until a birthday surprise finally brings them all to the same table.
An eight-year-old girl and her six-year-old brother take turns describing each other's worst habits, each convinced they're the family favorite — but who does Mom and Dad really love most?
A poor, overwhelmed man crowded into a one-room hut with his mother, wife, and six children begs his Rabbi for help — and gets the strange advice to bring his farm animals inside too.
