Books like Lyric McKerrigan, Secret Librarian
By Jacob Sager Weinstein
For the kid who thinks librarians are secretly the coolest people alive, Lyric McKerrigan makes that theory official. Spy-movie swagger crossed with story time, tongue-in-cheek and proudly bookish.
A Siamese kitten with an overactive imagination transforms into El Skippito, a mask-and-cape sword-fighter, ready to take on banditos and a bad bumble-beeto to save the day.
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 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.
A sound-making wonder named Mr. Brown moos like a cow, hoos like an owl, buzzes like a bee, and even chews gum like a grum-grumming hippo, daring readers to make every noise right along with him.
A boy tours his own house room by room, discovering odd made-up creatures hiding in ordinary spots — a Wocket in his pocket, a Vug under his rug, a Yeps on the steps.
A giant cat terrorizes the rodent citizens of Mousopolis in this King Kong spoof — someone brave and clever will need to stop the massive meowing menace before it's too late.
A boy named Jeremy Jacob joins Braid Beard's pirate crew for buried treasure and sea chanteys, gleefully ditching manners and bedtime — until he learns what pirates don't have.
A power-hungry cat with a red marker hijacks his own picture book, scribbling over the author's story until she fights back by auditioning other animals to replace him.
Twin sisters who look alike but never think alike share six funny stories about their everyday adventures, proving that being silly together is its own kind of fun.
A book with no pictures forces whoever reads it aloud to say every ridiculous word on the page — including BLORK, BLUURF, and a song about eating ants for breakfast.
A hippopotamus hiccups so hard he keeps toppling onto his bottom, and an elephant, a centipede, and a rhinoceros all try to find a cure before the chaos gets worse.
