Books like Rain Makes Applesauce
By Julian Scheer
For the kid who loves saying the most ridiculous thing possible just to hear a grown-up laugh, this book hands them permission to talk pure nonsense on every page. whimsical, dreamlike, playfully absurd, densely illustrated
A team of kid inventors heads to the zoo armed with zany traps and rhyming plans, determined to outsmart and catch the rainbow-maned unicorn.
Four tiny books in one: alligators march through the alphabet, a boy named Johnny counts his ever-growing pile of visitors, a boy named Pierre refuses to care about anything, and a hungry someone eats chicken soup with rice in every month of the year.
A single yellow dot invites the reader to press it, tap it, and tilt the book — and with each turn of the page, the dots multiply, scatter, and change color right before your eyes.
A picture-book biography of the real writer and illustrator Edward Gorey, tracing how a self-taught reader who skipped grades and wore a giant fur coat grew into one of literature's strangest, most inventive storytellers.
A boy falls asleep holding a book and drifts into a wordless dream world where chess pieces come alive, a dragon appears, and landscapes shift from canyons into cities before his eyes.
Bored with their spots on the map, all fifty states swap places overnight at a states party — until the switcheroo starts causing chaos and someone has to set the country straight.
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.
A young boy sets off on a moonlit walk armed with only an oversize purple crayon, drawing his own path through woods, seas, and dragons before finding his way safely back to bed.
A student gets stuck with a science curse after his teacher claims poetry is everywhere in science, and suddenly every rhyme in his head turns into a poem about amoebas, black holes, or the food chain.
A young inventor imagines the ultimate car — complete with a snack bar, a swimming pool, and a robot chauffeur named Robert — then takes it out for a wild test drive with his dad.
