Books like Mr. S
By Monica Arnaldo
For the kid who's nervous about a new teacher or a new classroom, this turns first-day jitters into an absurd mystery that's more funny than scary. Deadpan, absurd, mystery-tinged classroom comedy
Enormous dinosaurs head off to school just like any kid — riding the bus, reading books, and romping on the playground with classmates who happen to be the size of a Ceratosaurus.
Dragons love tacos more than anything, so a party planner throws them a giant taco party — but forgets that spicy salsa turns dragons into fire-breathing disasters.
A humble slice of pie always pushes the spotlight onto everyone else, but a school project with his best friend Jake the Cake forces him to ask whether staying quiet is really so sweet.
A gassy pet donkey gets stuck in a hole dug by a mole during a stroll, and accidentally kicks the ass of a snooty Scottish lass riding her prize-winning donkey nearby.
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 man with no sense at all lives backwards on purpose — moving into a tree to be closer to the ground and eating porridge on toast — until he meets an equally silly new friend.
A child gets ten minutes to get ready for bed while a growing crowd of hamster tourists pours through the front door for a wild, wordless-countdown tour of the house.
A boy and a girl are stuck telling one fairy tale together for class, but he wants a motorcycle dude battling a giant and she wants a princess with ponies — so their story collides into one.
A hungry frog and a clever fly face off in six short comic-style chapters, with frog always seeming to win — until fly gets the last word.
A beachful of bare-bellied hippos celebrates the one thing they all have in common, with one tiny baby hippo whose entire vocabulary is BEE BO.
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.
A man and his dog set out in a rowboat with lunch for three, only to get launched airborne when a playful whale surfaces right beneath them.
