A Busy Creature's Day Eating!

10 best books like A Busy Creature's Day Eating! (Mo Willems): Once Upon an Alphabet: Short Stories for all the Letters, Buddy and the Bunnies: In Don't Play with Your Food, Hello Hello, Dude!, Interrupting Chicken and the Elephant of Surprise, Weasels, 123 versus ABC, The Little Red Cat Who Ran Away and Learned His ABC's (the Hard Way), The Itchy Book!, If Rocks Could Sing: A Discovered Alphabet

AuthorOliver Jeffers
ISBN0399167919
THE alphabet book to top all others, from the illustrator of the #1 New York Times bestselling The Day the Crayons Quit!
 
If words make up the stories and letters make up the words, then stories are made up of letters. In this menagerie we have stories made of words, made FOR all the letters.

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AuthorBob Shea
ISBN1423168070
I enjoyed this book because-

Reason 1:
It would be fun to read aloud. I love doing monster voices and there's plenty of opportunity for that in this story.

Reason 2:
There are little bits of humor tucked away for grownups, like when the monster who wants to eat the bunnies who...
AuthorBrendan Wenzel
ISBN1452150141
This gorgeous follow-up to the Caldecott Honor–winning They All Saw a Cat explores another aspect of seeing the world for young children. Beginning with two cats, one black and one white, a chain of animals appears before the reader, linked together by at least one common trait. From simple colors...
AuthorAaron Reynolds
ISBN1626726035
Aaron Reynolds, the author of Nerdy Birdy and Creepy Carrots! teams up with Dan Santat, the Caldecott–winning illustrator behind The Adventures of Beekle: The Unimaginary Friend to create the hilarious, gnarly summer adventure picture book, Dude!

Dude! You have to read this book.

It's...
AuthorDavid Ezra Stein
ISBN0763688428
Surprise! The little red chicken is back -- and as endearingly silly as ever -- in David Ezra Stein's follow-up to the Caldecott Honor-winning Interrupting Chicken.

It's homework time for the little red chicken, who has just learned about something every good story should have: an elephant...
AuthorElys Dolan
ISBN0763671002
I ordered this from my library the moment I read Skye's review saying if she had only ONE book to read again, it would be this book!

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

If you skip her review, I'll say it is a picture book about our assumption that weasels when we aren't watching...
AuthorMike Boldt
ISBN0062102990
Mike Boldt's bright and playful picture book asks a big question: Which is more important, numbers or letters?
 
Numbers and letters, the colorful characters in this story, compete to be the stars of this book. Their debate escalates when funny animals and props arrive—starting with 1...
AuthorPatrick McDonnell
ISBN0316502464
Bestselling and award-winning artist Patrick McDonnell uses the ABC's to tell a hilarious, high-energy alphabetical adventure.

It starts with an ALLIGATOR and a BEAR chasing a CAT. When a DRAGON (and a chicken and an egg!) join in pursuit, things start to get REALLY interesting. A wild and...
AuthorLeUyen Pham
ISBN1368005640
Sometimes, when you have an itch, you really want to give it a scratch. Makes sense... but not when there's a sign, 'Dinosaurs do not scratch'. Alas, this collection of dinos are so eager to scratch that feeling that comes across the skin, but cannot disobey the sign. One of them is acting like quite the...
AuthorLeslie McGuirk
ISBN1582463700
Amazing rocks, found on a stretch of beach near the author's home, comprise this unique alphabet book. A is for Addition, and there are rocks in the shape of real numbers, too. B is for Bird, and there is a bird rock on a nest with an egg. G is for Ghosts, and there is a host of rocks that look like ghosts! Children...
AuthorKim Krans
ISBN0553539310
Remember ANIMALIA by Graeme Base? I adored that book as a child--akin to a surrealist I Spy, it would keep me transfixed as I searched the packed pages for all of the animals and objects (and the tiny boy!).

Kim Krans’s ABC DREAM is a gorgeous, sparer counterpart to Base’s classic. There is...
AuthorJory John
ISBN0385389906
The talented creators of I Will Chomp You! brilliantly frame the struggle to buck stereotypes and learn empathy in this monster’s hilarious lament.
 
Floyd Peterson is so much more than shaggy purple fur and pointy monster teeth — why can’t people just see him for him? Jory John and Bob...
AuthorAme Dyckman
ISBN1338112473
Every beachgoer knows that there's nothing more terrifying than a... SHARRRK! But this shark is just misunderstood, or is he? In a wholly original, side-splittingly funny story, New York Times bestselling author Ame Dyckman and illustrator Scott Magoon take this perennial theme and turn it on its...
AuthorAlison Murray
ISBN1423136942
When an apple pie arrives piping hot on the kitchen table, a little pup does everything from A to Z to get his paws on it. He Ogles it. He Pines for it. But will his ABC antics land him a slice?

APPLE PIE ABC is a delicious twist on traditional verse brought to life by Alison Murray's simple words and...
AuthorJudy Sierra
ISBN0375840028
A delightful book to read out loud with children who are just learning their ABCs.

It's sleepy time in Alphabet Town. But the twenty-six little letters of the alphabet all have something they need--or want--to do before BIG-letter moms and dads tuck them in. Not since the classic Chicka Chicka...
AuthorJan Thomas
ISBN1416985824
Cow and Pig are helping Mouse make a delicious soup, but Pig keeps trying to add ingredients that don’t make sense!

Mouse is making a yummy pot of soup and Cow and Pig are helping add ingredients. Mouse adds four tomatoes, Cow adds five potatoes, and Pig adds…six galoshes?! Is that wise, Pig?...
AuthorSean Taylor
Monster may think he wants to be in a scary story, but then again . . . A hilarious return by the team that brought us Hoot Owl, Master of Disguise.
Our author would like to write a funny story, but his main character Monster has a different idea. He wants to be the star of a chilling, petrifying, utterly...
AuthorAlethea Kontis
ISBN0763627283
It's backwards! It's inside out! It's every letter for itself! This laugh-out-loud romp is not your average alphabet book!

Z is tired of always having to be last when the alphabet family lines up. He is demanding fair and equal treatment! The letters (more or less) agree to go backwards, but...
AuthorMichaël Escoffier
ISBN1592701566
Take Away the A is a fun, imaginative romp through the alphabet. The idea behind the book is that within every language there are words that change and become a different word through the simple subtraction of a single letter. In other words, without the "A," the Beast is Best. Or, without the "M," a chomp...
AuthorBridget Heos
ISBN1250134889
A fun, playful, energetic story starring two stegosauruses and one stegothesaurus about family--and synonyms!--for the young word lover in your home, residence, or abode!

Stegothesaurus's love of language has always put him at odds with his stegosaurus brothers. So when he makes a friend--an...
AuthorDenise Fleming
ISBN0805081127
An artist's approach to introducing the alphabet

Mouse airbrushes the A,
buttons the B,
carves the C . . .

Mouse is hard at work constructing each letter of the alphabet. He dyes the D, erases the E, and folds the F. Mouse works his way right through to Z, constructing an alphabet...
AuthorIan Falconer
ISBN1481457950
Everyone’s favorite pig is about to have a birthday…but will her penchant for eavesdropping lead to more than presents?

Olivia’s birthday is days away. Plans must be made. Who makes plans? Moms! Who simply must know the plans? Olivia, who is NOT above eavesdropping. But when she not-so-accidentally-but-kinda...
AuthorBarbara Bottner
ISBN0375867082
Imagine a preschool classroom with 25 cranky kids and one beleaguered teacher.

It only takes one small annoying act from Adelaide to set off a chain reaction of bad behavior. Dexter is drooling, Flora is fuming, Jasper is jeering, Kirby is kicking . . . and before you know it, Stella is stumbling,...
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