Books like This Is a Book of Shapes
By Kenneth Kraegel
For the kid who's bored stiff by ordinary shape books, this one pulls the rug out from under the whole genre — right around the time the emu shows up with a pancake wagon. deadpan, dry, and quietly absurd, with a wink hiding behind every wood-grained shape
A parade of rhyming oddballs takes readers from near to far and here to there — a bumpy Wump, a singing Ying, a winking Yink who drinks pink ink — with no plot but plenty of silly counting and rhyming along the way.
Three animals model colorful hats, shirts, and pants with calm confidence, while a fumbling turkey gets dressed all wrong, turning every page into a game of spotting the mistake.
A wild parade of tongue twisters — from Bed Spreaders spreading spreads to Bread Spreaders spreading butter — dares readers to say each tangled phrase without tripping over their own tongue.
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.
An alphabet parade of animals acts out each letter with a matching verb — an aardvark admiring, beavers ballooning, cats cleaning — all the way to a zigzagging zebra.
A worried mother tells her dog George to bark, but out comes a meow, then an oink — so she takes him to the vet to find out what's really going on inside him.
When something lands PLOP on his head one morning, a little mole sets off to question his neighbors one by one, determined to find out exactly whodunit.
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.
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.
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 band of monkeys drums, hums, and dances through a bouncy rhyme, inviting little ones to find their own hands, fingers, and thumbs along the way.
A Siamese kitten with an overactive imagination transforms into El Skippito, a mask-and-cape sword-fighter, ready to take on banditos and a bad bumble-beeto to save the day.
