Books like Muncha! Muncha! Muncha!
By Candace Fleming
For the kid who loves a good chase and roots for the sneaky underdogs, this one turns a backyard standoff into pure delight. bouncy, mischievous, full of sound and repetition
A cat gets a cupcake and asks for sprinkles to go with it, setting off a chain of requests and small messes that just keeps looping back on itself.
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 boy welcomes a hungry moose with a muffin, but one muffin leads to jam, then a trip to the store for more mix, spinning into one favor after another.
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 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 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 named Floyd gets his kite stuck in a tree and tries to knock it loose by throwing his shoe — but the shoe gets stuck too, so he keeps throwing bigger and stranger things instead.
Farmer Brown's cows find a typewriter in the barn and start leaving him notes with demands — and when he refuses, the whole farm goes on strike.
A rhyming romp through prehistoric history reveals underpants-loving dinosaurs, including a strutting T. rex, whose obsession sparked the legendary Underpants War that really wiped them out.
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 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 boy who wants everything for Christmas gets a very hungry pet dinosaur instead — and when the dino eats up the whole holiday, it all has to come out somewhere.
