Books like Open Very Carefully: A Book with Bite
By Nick Bromley
A little red chicken just can't sit still through bedtime stories, jumping into Hansel and Gretel and Little Red Riding Hood to save the characters herself, much to her patient papa's dismay.
A furry blue monster begs the reader directly, page after page, not to keep turning — because there's a monster waiting at the very end of the book.
An author sits down to write a story about a mouse in a house, but her cat Chester keeps grabbing a red marker to rewrite the pages his way — turning the book into a battle over who's really in charge.
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.
In 1783 France, a wildly ambitious crowd readies the very first hot-air balloon flight — except the passengers turn out to be a duck, a rooster, and a sheep, not people.
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 trickster raven sets out to steal light from Sky Chief and give it to a world living in darkness, risking discovery to pull off his boldest transformation yet.
A child imagines an entire day as a horse — galloping through familiar settings, wondering if they'd fit in their clothes, and whether a little sister would get a ride.
Warned to fear the Big Bad Mouse, the Gruffalo's curious child sneaks into the deep dark wood to hunt him down — only to spot the mouse and a mysterious giant shadow looming close behind.
A cheerful little woman chases a runaway rice dumpling deep underground, where she falls into the clutches of a wicked three-eyed oni and must use her wits to escape.
A man and his little dog head out early one winter morning to learn how to ski, but a run-in with a curious moose sends them flying through the air and hanging above a snowy abyss.
