Books like Sam & Dave Dig a Hole
By Mac Barnett
For the kid who digs holes in the backyard convinced that today's the day they'll hit buried treasure, this one turns that hope into the whole story. Dry, deadpan, quietly funny, with a sense that something's happening just out of view.
An elephant named Horace turns eleven and throws a costume party for his exotically dressed animal friends, but when it's time for the feast, someone has already eaten it all.
A determined bunny stacks cardboard boxes into an imaginary city, insisting on doing it solo — until building alone starts to feel like something's missing.
A boy named Ned races a thousand miles to a surprise party, and every stroke of good luck — a borrowed airplane, a handy parachute — flips into disaster and back again.
A relentlessly cheerful stranger follows a grumpy skeptic everywhere, asking him to try green eggs and ham in a box, on a train, in the rain — anywhere, everywhere.
When Miss Rabbit's carrot cake vanishes from Ed's farm, two mouse detectives, Wilcox and Griswold, must sniff out clues and question suspects to solve the case of who ate it, stole it, or both.
A gentle troll sets off through the woods to bring his mother milk, but the simple errand turns into a winding adventure when he meets Mymble, who has lost her sister Little My.
A grumbly, hardworking Father Christmas finally gets his well-earned break, jetting off to France, Scotland, and Las Vegas in search of the perfect holiday.
A young spider records his everyday life in diary entries — spinning sticky webs, scaling walls, taking wind-catching lessons, and surviving the occasional run-in with a vacuum cleaner.
A boy named Nicholas wakes up to find a witch has cast a body-swap spell on him overnight, trapping him inside his cat Leonardo while Leonardo goes off to school in his place.
A cast of insects — damselflies, beetles, and a pill bug named Icky — watches a tiny shoot grow into a plant, builds a tree fort in its branches, and faces something horrible that swoops down from above.
A little girl overhears everyday adult expressions and pictures them literally, imagining a king who rains from the sky and a foot prince leaving tracks in the snow.
A man and his dog set out on a peaceful camping trip, but a marshmallow-loving bear sends them plunging down a mountain and racing down a river toward a waterfall.
