Books like That Is Not a Good Idea!
By Mo Willems
For the kid who loves shouting warnings at the page, this one hands them the mic on every spread. Silent-movie melodrama played for laughs, with a wink under every panel.
A boy welcomes a hungry moose with a muffin, but one muffin leads to jam, then a trip to the store for more mix, spinning into one favor after another.
A mischievous family cat dodges bath time by scrambling Dad's chore list, so the family ends up mowing the floor, vacuuming the lawn, and mopping the baby instead of doing what they meant to.
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 man walks down the road and meets a donkey with only three legs, then keeps adding one silly detail after another until the description spirals into an entirely absurd creature.
Dragons love tacos more than anything, so a party planner throws them a giant taco party — but forgets that spicy salsa turns dragons into fire-breathing disasters.
A pigeon finds a hot dog he desperately wants all to himself, but a sly, hungry duckling shows up wanting a bite — so whose bird brain wins?
A friendly monster arrives from Planet Tickle with one mission: to tickle whichever child is following along, turning the grown-up reading aloud into the monster's own tickling hands.
A boy who wants everything for Christmas gets a very hungry pet dinosaur instead — and when the dino eats up the whole holiday, it all has to come out somewhere.
An old lady swallows a fly, then a spider to catch it, then bird after cat after dog — each one bigger and more absurd than the last, in a chain that just keeps growing.
A cat gets a cupcake and asks for sprinkles to go with it, setting off a chain of requests and small messes that just keeps looping back on itself.
A sound-making wonder named Mr. Brown moos like a cow, hoos like an owl, buzzes like a bee, and even chews gum like a grum-grumming hippo, daring readers to make every noise right along with him.
Kanga sets out to make cookies, but someone has eaten all the cookie dough — and it's up to young readers to spot the clues and solve the mystery.
