Books like Tickle Monster
By Josie Bissett
For the kid who turns every story into a wrestling match, this book hands grown-ups the script to make it official. Silly, physical, giggly, and a little bit mischievous.
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 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.
A persistent pigeon really, really, REALLY wants a puppy and begs the reader directly, promising to take great care of it — but only the reader can decide if he's actually ready.
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 toddler leads a cheerful parade of friends on a walk to the end of a seaside pier, picking up buzzing bees, bicycle bells and a whole beachful of noisy company along the way.
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.
A hungry frog and a clever fly face off in six short comic-style chapters, with frog always seeming to win — until fly gets the last word.
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 furry blue monster begs the reader directly, page after page, not to keep turning — because there's a monster waiting at the very end of the book.
A beachful of bare-bellied hippos celebrates the one thing they all have in common, with one tiny baby hippo whose entire vocabulary is BEE BO.
A bus driver puts the reader in charge of making sure a stubborn pigeon goes to bed on time, but the pigeon has endless excuses for why it should stay up.
A hippopotamus hiccups so hard he keeps toppling onto his bottom, and an elephant, a centipede, and a rhinoceros all try to find a cure before the chaos gets worse.
