Books like Piggies
By Don Wood
For the kid who wiggles their fingers and toes and needs one more reason to giggle before lights-out, this one turns bedtime into a tiny stage show. Playful, dreamy, and a little bit mischievous, winding down into cozy and calm.
A girl named Sally travels to town walking backward and upside down, picking up a silly pig, a silly dog, and other funny friends who join her topsy-turvy parade.
A big-eared kitten who imagines himself a swashbuckling Chihuahua hero leads his doggy pals into the Under Mundo, where he must solve the Sphinx's riddle to enter a mummy's tomb.
Sent to his room for a time-out, a big-eared Siamese kitten imagines himself as a swashbuckling Chihuahua hero who must chase a menacing Bobble-ito out of his friends' doghouse.
A tabbed board book bundles seven Sandra Boynton bedtime stories in one, letting little ones pick and flip between silly, sleepy tales again and again before lights out.
A little witch determined to save her town's Halloween parade from rain uses her magic to change the storm — first to cats and dogs, then hats and clogs, then bats and frogs.
Two friends imagine what kind of dogs they'd be — one dreams up being a big dog, the other little — as their game of pretend becomes a way of working out who gets to decide what happens next.
A groovy cat's rainy day surfing plans get cancelled, but instead of getting sad, he turns a big box into a launchpad for his imagination.
A garden fills up with counting fun as a mole digs a hole, parrots pull up carrots, bears pick pears, and bees prune trees with tiny shears — one busy number at a time.
A boatload of animals heads below deck at sunset for a bedtime routine — scrubbing in one big tub, brushing their teeth, doing exercises, and rocking together until every last one drifts off to sleep.
A little boy heads outdoors and imitates the walk of every animal he meets, trying out hops, waddles, and gallops before finally moving like himself.
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.
At bedtime, a little boy asks his mama again and again — what if he were a smelly skunk, a meat-eating dinosaur, a swamp creature — and she answers every wild what-if with love.
