Books like We Found a Hat
By Jon Klassen
For the kid who's just learned how hard it is to want the same thing as a sibling, this one turns that exact feeling into something oddly comforting. Deadpan, quiet, and dry-witted, with long silent pauses that let the turtles' eyes do all the talking.
Give a hungry little mouse a cookie and he'll ask for milk, then a mirror, then scissors — one small request tumbling into the next until the whole day spins out of control.
Two kids stuck inside on a rainy day get an uninvited visitor — a tall cat in a striped hat who promises fun and games while their mother is away.
A little girl gives a pig a pancake, and one request leads to another — syrup, then a bubble bath — spinning into a chain of demands that circles right back to where it started.
A boy named Marvin K. Mooney is told, again and again, that it's time to leave — by lion's tail, by mail, by stilts, by Crunk-Car, by Zumble-Zay — will he ever take the hint?
Bored once the children head back to school, a group of farm animals wander into the town library — but nobody can understand Cow, Pig, Horse, or Goat until Hen tries a different way to ask.
A bossy big sister bunny plans an angel surprise cake with raspberry-fluff icing for Grandma's birthday, but her little brother Max keeps trying to add his own messy touches instead.
A boy who refuses to behave gets exactly what his mother threatened: an enormous pet blue whale he must haul everywhere, including school, with predictably disastrous results.
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 rascally cat named Slinky Malinki turns into a nighttime thief, sneaking off to steal all sorts of things — until morning arrives and crime doesn't pay.
A boy named Buzz searches for something to catch for the Amazing Pet Show, and a hungry fly follows a smell — and the two strike up a friendship no one expects.
A little old lady complains that her house is too small, so a wise old man tells her to bring in the hen, goat, pig, and cow one by one — with noisy, crowded results.
All the letters of the alphabet race each other up a coconut tree, chanting chicka chicka boom boom, until so many pile on that the whole tree tumbles them down.
