Books like Red Light, Green Light
By Anastasia Suen
For the kid who can't pass a fire truck or a stoplight without pointing and shouting, this turns that obsession into a whole make-believe world built from stuff already lying around the house. Bouncy, busy, and full of engine noise and motion.
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.
A bright, rhyming romp through a day in the life of birds — from the rooster's dawn crow to the owl's nighttime call — inviting little ones to cheep and tweet along.
A boy walks home from school and imagines wilder and wilder sights on Mulberry Street, building a story fantastic enough to tell his father.
An endlessly imaginative girl transforms into robots, trees, and countless other characters through rhyming games, while her messy room and her mother's patience wait in the background.
An imaginative boy dreams up the ultimate house, sketching in a racetrack, a flying playroom, and a gigantic slide as his ideas grow wilder with every rhyme.
A young musical prodigy masters the violin, flute, trombone, and drums with dazzling skill, but keeps growing restless — until he discovers the one role that finally satisfies him.
A collection of poems rides the rails through every kind of train imaginable — bullet, sleeper, underground, zoo — celebrating the sound, speed, and grit of train travel one poem at a time.
A rhyming romp through everything that counts as a house — anthills, dog kennels, corn husks, pea pods — and eventually the surprising idea that a shoe, a mirror, even a word, might have a house too.
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.
Two pouncy kittens named Brush and Hush mix buckets of paint trying to make green, splashing their way into pink, orange, and purple instead.
A curious kid heads outside to explore wind firsthand — feeling it push and pull, chasing hats, and figuring out why something you can't see is so easy to feel.
On a scorching day, Junie and Jake, Poppa, and the baby set off for the lake in a rattling, wheezing car that doesn't go fast and doesn't go far.
