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10 best books like The Cafeteria Lady from the Black Lagoon (Mike Thaler): I Want My Hat Back, Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus, Captain Awesome to the Rescue!, The Okay Witch, Over in the Meadow, Harry by the Sea, Versed, Ooga-Booga: Poems, Winnie-the-Pooh and Some Bees, Homegirls and Handgrenades

I Want My Hat Back
AuthorJon Klassen
ISBN0763655988
A picture-book delight by a rising talent tells a cumulative tale with a mischievous twist.

The bear’s hat is gone, and he wants it back. Patiently and politely, he asks the animals he comes across, one by one, whether they have seen it. Each animal says no, some more elaborately than others....
Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus
AuthorBarbara Park
ISBN0679826424
I have heard so much about how great these books are so we decided to check them out. I can't think of a single thing from this book that was a "good example" for the kids. None of the people say anything kind or helpful. Many things are described as "stupid, "hate," and "dumb." My kids don't talk that way .....
Captain Awesome to the Rescue!
AuthorStan Kirby
ISBN1442435615
Bad guys beware! Eugene McGillicudy just happens to be the most awesome superhero of all time…Captain Awesome. MI-TEE!

Now readers between the ages of five and seven can read chapter books tailor-made for a younger level of reading comprehension. Heavily illustrated with large type,...
The Okay Witch
AuthorEmma Steinkellner
ISBN1534431454
Sabrina the Teenage Witch meets Roller Girl in this hilarious, one-of-a-kind graphic novel about a half-witch who has just discovered the truth about herself, her family, and her town and is doing her best to survive middle school now that she knows everything!

Magic is harder than it looks.
...
Over in the Meadow
AuthorOlive A. Wadsworth
ISBN0140565086
Ezra illustrated an old Nursery poem. I simply love the rhyming verse. Each page is an animal parent with a number of offspring that goes up from 1 to 10 and the rhyme is consistent and it really drives a rhythm home. It’s pretty cool.

The artwork is nice, but I like his later books with his character...
Harry by the Sea
AuthorGene Zion
ISBN0064430103
A classic picture book featuring the beloved Harry the Dirty Dog!

When Harry goes on a visit to the beach, he is mistaken for a sea creature when a big wave covers him with seaweed. Harry also has to hunt for his family beneath all the similar beach umbrellas. Children will relate to Harry's funny...
Versed
AuthorRae Armantrout
ISBN0819568791
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (2010)
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award (2009)

Rae Armantrout has always organized her collections of poetry as though they were works in themselves. Versed brings two of these sequences together, offering readers an expanded...
Ooga-Booga: Poems
AuthorFrederick Seidel
ISBN0374226555
From the winner of the PEN/Voelker Award, poems of love, terror,
rage, and desire.


Here I am, not a practical man,
But clear-eyed in my contact lenses,
Following no doubt a slightly different line than the others,
Seeking sexual pleasure above all else,
Despairing...
Winnie-the-Pooh and Some Bees
AuthorA.A. Milne
ISBN0525443398
I love Winnie the Pooh or, as Christopher Robin tells the narrator, "He's Winnie-ther-Pooh. Don't you know what ther means?"

And the narrator replies, " 'Ah, yes, now I do,' I said quickly; and I hope you do too, because it is all the explanation you are going to get."

This is the story...
Homegirls and Handgrenades
AuthorSonia Sanchez
ISBN1893996808
“Only a poet with an innocent heart can exorcise so much pain with so much beauty.”—Isabel Allende

A reprint of Sonia Sanchez’s award-winning collection, which contains some of her seminal work. Winner of the American Book Award.

Sonia Sanchez is a poet, activist, and scholar...
Anatomic
AuthorAdam Dickinson
ISBN1552453642
Anatomic is a poetry book that has emerged from biomonitoring and microbiome testing on the author's body to look at the wayThe poems of Anatomic have emerged from biomonitoring and microbiome testing on the author's body to examine the way the outside writes the inside, both harmfully and necessarily....
While Standing in Line for Death
AuthorC.A. Conrad
ISBN1940696550
"From these rituals come notes; from those notes come poems; and from those poems comes not just a view into his process, but an entrance into another present." —Boston Globe

After his boyfriend Earth's murder, CAConrad was looking for a (Soma)tic poetry ritual to overcome his depression....
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