Books like My Cat Likes to Hide in Boxes
By Eve Sutton
For the kid who thinks their own pet is secretly the most fascinating creature alive, this one celebrates an ordinary cat's oddest habit with total delight. Playful, rhythmic, and quietly funny, with a running joke that builds through repetition.
Three dust bunnies named Ed, Ned, and Ted love rhyming games — bug, rug, mug, hug — but a fourth named Bob keeps breaking the pattern, trying to warn them about a broom-wielding danger heading their way.
Two kids stuck inside on a rainy day get an uninvited visitor — a tall cat in a striped hat who promises fun and games while their mother is away.
A Siamese cat who imagines he's a bold Chihuahua bounces into his closet and lands in a snowy make-believe forest, where the seven Chimichangos dare him to kiss a frozen princess awake.
A little old lady complains that her house is too small, so a wise old man tells her to bring in the hen, goat, pig, and cow one by one — with noisy, crowded results.
A rascally cat named Slinky Malinki turns into a nighttime thief, sneaking off to steal all sorts of things — until morning arrives and crime doesn't pay.
A little girl wakes up one Thursday with a full set of antlers growing out of her head, and while the doctor and school principal panic, the cook and kitchen maid find surprising uses for them.
A clever mouse walks through the deep dark wood, escaping hungry predators by inventing a scary monster called the gruffalo — then discovers the gruffalo is real.
A picture book imagines what would happen if animals wore clothes — a snake loses its clothes, a billy goat eats them, and a walrus stays soggy in a wet suit that never dries.
A boy named Marvin K. Mooney is told, again and again, that it's time to leave — by lion's tail, by mail, by stilts, by Crunk-Car, by Zumble-Zay — will he ever take the hint?
After happily-ever-after turns out to be anything but, a discontented prince sets off to find a witch who can turn him back into a frog — but every witch he meets has other plans.
A curious bear wanders into the home of the three Blairs while they're out, poking around their chairs, beds, and bowls in a topsy-turvy retelling of Goldilocks.
When evening falls, a crowd of bats flutters from the rafters to fill a moonlit stadium, watching their own all-stars play a topsy-turvy game of baseball.
