Books like Superhero ABC
By Bob McLeod
Superhero ABC turns every letter into its own tiny comic panel, and your kid starts guessing the power before you even read the name. Bubble-Man popping bullies gets a laugh every single time. If your house is full of made-up capes and invented superpowers, the books below keep that energy going.
Same goofy sound-effect energy as the superheroes, but R is for Robot: A Noisy Alphabet by Adam F. Watkins hands the noises to clanking machines instead of capes.
A boy wakes up to find one shoe stuck on the ceiling — just the first clue that something is very wrong this Wednesday, as the wacky mistakes keep multiplying page after page.
The alphabet fun becomes tongue-twisting chaos in Oh Say Can You Say? by Dr. Seuss, where the joke is tripping over your own mouth.
A book with no pictures forces whoever reads it aloud to say every ridiculous word on the page — including BLORK, BLUURF, and a song about eating ants for breakfast.
A paint-happy kid gets banned from painting after covering everything from ceiling to floor, then finds a wildly funny way to keep creating anyway — using every color on hand.
For the kid who wants one hero to follow instead of twenty-six, Skippyjon Jones by Judy Schachner gives a whole caped-and-masked adventure to a single silly cat.
Less alphabet, more actual stories, but Ling & Ting: Twice as Silly by Grace Lin keeps the same laugh-at-every-page rhythm your kid already knows.
Lyric McKerrigan, Secret Librarian by Jacob Sager Weinstein keeps the cape-and-mission setup but gives the powers to a librarian instead of twenty-six random heroes.
Shorter and quieter than the superhero cast, Alligators All Around by Maurice Sendak still turns each letter into its own tiny burst of silliness.
Skip the jokes on the page and just look. Alphabeasts by Wallace Edwards hides its alphabet gags in the pictures instead of the words.
Good for the toddler sibling too young for superhero jokes, A to Z by Sandra Boynton keeps the same one-letter-one-laugh setup in board-book form.
Forget letters entirely. Tickle Monster by Josie Bissett turns the whole book into an excuse for you to tickle your kid on command.
