Books like The Humble Pie
By Jory John
For the kid who always says 'you go first' and means it — this pie's story might just give them permission to speak up. Warm, funny, and gently encouraging, with the same wink-and-grin humor as the rest of the Food Group books.
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.
On the first day of kindergarten in room 2B, the students arrive to find no teacher — just a sandwich on the desk and the mysterious letters 'Mr. S' on the chalkboard.
A lonely piece of bread searches for a friend, asking Hamburger, Cupcake, and Egg to play — but each one is too busy with their own thing to notice what he's really looking for.
A joyful little girl romps through rhyme after rhyme declaring she likes herself completely — messy hair, beaver breath, and all — no matter what anyone thinks.
A kindergarten teacher races to prepare her classroom while her twenty-six students, one for each letter of the alphabet, get ready for their very first day of school.
Enormous dinosaurs head off to school just like any kid — riding the bus, reading books, and romping on the playground with classmates who happen to be the size of a Ceratosaurus.
A man and his dog set out in a rowboat with lunch for three, only to get launched airborne when a playful whale surfaces right beneath them.
Twenty-three rowdy rhyming poems tackle everything from bullying baseball coaches to annoying little brothers, poking fun at the everyday chaos of modern family life.
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.
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 child gets ten minutes to get ready for bed while a growing crowd of hamster tourists pours through the front door for a wild, wordless-countdown tour of the house.
A thoughtful girl whispers her wish to change the world to a paper crane each night, and slowly learns to push past feeling invisible so her light can shine.
