Books like Millions of Cats
By Wanda Gág
By the second read, your kid is shouting "millions and billions and trillions of cats" right along with you, and that's really the whole appeal of Millions of Cats. It's a simple old-fashioned story that turns into pure joyful noise at bedtime. The books below are for kids who want another chant to yell into the dark.
That same swelling chaos of the old man's cat parade shows up here, but The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss lets two troublemakers wreck the whole house.
Same warm, whimsical animal world, but Stellaluna by Janell Cannon is about fitting in somewhere strange, not finding just the right one.
Same small, determined creature chasing something huge in the sky, but Kitten's First Full Moon by Kevin Henkes is quiet where the cat book is loud and crowded.
Same rhyming pull toward home, but Stick Man by Julia Donaldson sends its hero on a rougher journey before Christmas brings him back.
Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss shares that whimsical mood and the same repetition read-aloud feel with Millions of Cats.
Kids who love shouting hundreds and thousands and millions will fall right into the swishy-swashy rhythm of We're Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen.
Where one old man just wants a cat, Library Lion by Michelle Knudsen is about a whole library deciding a lion can belong too.
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Joffe Numeroff keeps the same snowballing repeat-it-back rhythm, just with a mouse's demands instead of cats multiplying by the trillions.
A lost little bird instead of a lonely old couple, but Are You My Mother? by P.D. Eastman keeps that same searching, hopeful heartbeat all the way through.
Reach for Llama Llama Red Pajama by Anna Dewdney on nights when your kid wants that same cozy old-couple warmth but needs it aimed straight at bedtime worry.
Corduroy by Don Freeman shares that heartwarming mood and the same heart for acceptance with Millions of Cats.
If the trillions-of-cats counting bit was the favorite part, If You Give a Pig a Pancake by Laura Joffe Numeroff gives your kid another circular, ever-escalating chain to follow.
