Books like Ooh-la-la: Max in Love
By Maira Kalman
For the kid who loves wordplay and wonders what it would be like to visit Paris, Max's froufrou adventure is a giddy, rhyme-drunk escape. Whimsical, playful, and stuffed with puns — a springtime Parisian daydream.
A little girl waits eagerly for a new hat from her favorite aunt, but when it arrives plain and ordinary, she sets out to make it beautiful herself.
A dapper frog rides off on horseback to woo a coy little mouse, and their courtship unfolds through verse after verse of the old folk song, right up to their wedding day.
A girl who loves gorillas longs for her too-busy father to take her to see one, until the night before her birthday brings an extraordinary, moonlit visitor.
When an evil spider queen threatens to destroy a kindly old woman's garden, the good bugs call on the tiny warrior Leaf Men for help — and race to recover a Long Lost Toy that might save her.
A carpenter named Caleb gets into a spat with his wife Kate, then wakes up transformed into a dog — unable to speak or explain who he really is, so he stays close to her as her loyal companion.
A determined girl chases every trick her neighbors suggest to try to capture Brother Wind himself as her partner for the junior cakewalk jubilee, certain nothing else will do.
A lonely squirrel named Mr. Peanuts spends his days climbing trees and gathering nuts, wishing for company — until he meets a special squirrel friend and falls in love, with visits to the bookstore, the park, and a candlelit dinner.
On a school trip to the Empire State Building, a boy is whisked away by a mischievous cloud to the Cloud Dispatch Center for Sector 7, where he starts sketching wild new cloud shapes for bored clouds.
A pair of cardinals build their home in a beloved evergreen tree, but when the tree is suddenly taken away, one bird must find his way back to the other across a great distance.
A tiny snail longing to see the world hitches a ride on a humpback whale's tail, and together they sail to icebergs and volcanoes — until the whale gets stranded and needs the smallest friend to save her.
A girl and her house full of rescued, misfit creatures grow restless and decide to move on — but when every one of her careful plans falls apart, she has to find another way forward.
A sturdy farm girl named Fanny Agnes waits in her garden for a fairy godmother to whisk her off to the mayor's grand ball and her destined prince — but who actually shows up changes everything.
