Books like Silly Sally
By Audrey Wood
Silly Sally has your kid walking backward across the living room before you've even finished the page, dancing jigs and playing leapfrog right along with the pig and the dog. That bouncy rhyme gets chanted back at you by book two. The books below bring more of that same upside-down giggle fest.
Same backward-and-upside-down energy, but The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss adds two extra troublemakers and a house that gets much messier.
If backward-and-upside-down walking got giggles, How to Catch a Unicorn by Adam Wallace turns the silliness into a hunt with traps and puzzles to solve.
For the kid who liked the funny animal friends best, Skippyjon Jones by Judy Schachner gives them one wild cat who talks in his own goofy accent.
Shorter and drummier than the parade to town. Hand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb by Al Perkins gets little hands moving instead of just listening.
Less nonsense rhyme, more actual plot. Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type by Doreen Cronin still has that same gleeful animals-causing-trouble spirit.
Wants kids shouting along just like walking backward does, but Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You? by Dr. Seuss turns the whole thing into a noise-making contest.
No animals, no rhyme, but The Book with No Pictures by B.J. Novak gets the same helpless giggles by making you say ridiculous things out loud.
The animal friends keep joining in one by one, and Room on the Broom by Julia Donaldson gives them an actual rescue to pull off together.
The joy here isn't animals joining in, it's watching things go wrong then right then wrong again. Fortunately by Remy Charlip keeps that same breathless momentum.
Press Here by Hervé Tullet shares that whimsical mood and the same heart for creativity with Silly Sally.
