Books like You Don't Want a Unicorn!
By Ame Dyckman
For the kid who's begged for a puppy, a pony, or literally any animal without thinking through what happens after — this one gets to watch someone else learn that lesson first. Silly, knowing, a little chaotic, and very funny about the gap between expectation and reality.
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 dog who hates baths buries the scrubbing brush and runs off for a day of adventure, getting so filthy that his own family no longer recognizes him.
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.
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.
Five little monkeys jump on the bed after saying goodnight to Mama — and one by one, they fall off, bump their heads, and get a call to the doctor.
A shark and a train face off in one absurd contest after another — bowling, Ping Pong, piano playing, pie eating — as two kids' toy chest imaginings spiral into gleeful, unanswerable competition.
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.
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 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 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.
A sheep and a goat both say "baa" and refuse to share, so the sheep invents an all-new sound — zip zap wickety wack — until an alien shows up claiming that sound belongs to him too.
