The Terrible Plop
10 best books like The Terrible Plop (Ursula Dubosarsky): Moo!, Dancing Feet!, There Are No Cats in This Book, Move Over, Rover!, A Dog Is a Dog, Flip, Flap, Fly!: A Book for Babies Everywhere, Don't Slam the Door!, Katie Loves the Kittens, Let's Play in the Forest While the Wolf Is Not Around!, The Wonderful Book
| Author | David LaRochelle |
| ISBN | 0802734103 |
When Cow gets her hooves on the farmer's car, she takes it for a wild ride through the country. Moooo! But a bump in the road brings this joy ride to a troublesome end. Moo-moo. . . Has Cow learned her lesson about living life in the fast lane? Moo?
Pairing two talented creators who managed to tell...
| Author | Lindsey Craig |
| ISBN | 0375861815 |
Clickity! Clickity! Long green feet!
Who is dancing that clickity beat?
Lizard is dancing on clickity feet.
Clickity! Clickity! Happy feet!
Introducing a get-up-and-dance toddler book-so catchy and rhythmic, you'll almost want to sing it.
Lindsey Craig's...
There Are No Cats in This Book
| Author | Viviane Schwarz |
| ISBN | 0763649546 |
The interactive cats are back, but not for long! They re eager to go off to see the world. So will someone please help them get out of the book?
Our lovable feline friends Tiny, Moonpie, and Andre have returned, and this time they re filled with the spirit of adventure: they want to go off to explore the...
| Author | Karen Beaumont |
| ISBN | 0152019790 |
Summary:
Rover hates the rainy day and goes into the doghouse to keep him dry. As the storm continues, one by one, different animals start looking for a place to stay as the storm passes. As the space in the doghouse begins to become limited little do the animals know that there is another friend in there...
| Author | Stephen Shaskan |
| ISBN | 0811878961 |
Beware the children’s librarian entrenched in the same old, same old. One of the risks of the profession is that when children’s librarians grow jaded, they start to rely upon the same five to eight books for all their storytimes. Toddlers today? Haul out The Noisy Counting Book. Preschoolers?...
Flip, Flap, Fly!: A Book for Babies Everywhere
| Author | Phyllis Root |
| ISBN | 0763631094 |
Infectious rhymes, sunny illustrations, and an array of baby animals make an irresistible page-turner for the youngest of listeners.
Little readers are invited to join these baby animals as they fly, swim, wiggle, and slide, all with the help of their mamas. But what these babies like best,...
| Author | Dori Chaconas |
| ISBN | 0763637092 |
Slamming the screen door sets off a comical chain of cause-and-effect in this rollicking tale of a rambunctious family.
A slamming door may not seem like a big deal, but in this escalating tale, it can have far-reaching (and very funny) consequences — including a limping, yelping Pa; a scared,...
The acclaimed author and illustrator of Chickens to the Rescue has created a sweet, funny, and entirely irresistible new character--a little dog just bursting with good intentions.
Katie is so excited when Sara Ann brings home three little kittens that she can't stop herself from howling...
| Author | Claudia Rueda |
| ISBN | 0439823234 |
Rising star Claudia Rueda makes a sparkling debut as author and artist in this winsome story based on a traditional French and Spanish play song for the very young.
"Let's play in the forest while the wolf is not around," sing the animals in the forest. "Wolf, are you there?"
"I am putting...
| Author | Leonid Gore |
| ISBN | 0545085985 |
In this delightful story, a lost book transforms into whatever the finder needs it to be. An imaginative and original tale with all the elements of the best and most enduring children's book classics!
Deep in the woods, a rabbit finds a mysterious object. "What is this?" he asks. "It looks like...
| Author | Sean Bryan |
| ISBN | 1559707259 |
I have finally read the prequel and sequel to A Girl and Her Gator by Sean Bryan and Tom Murphy. Having read the entire trilogy (perhaps with more to come), I feel like my life is complete. These are some of my most favorite picture books of all time.
The genius started in 2005 with A Boy and His Bunny...
| Author | Scott M. Fischer |
| ISBN | 1416978844 |
When a bug sleeping on a jug is chased by a frog, he has to jump to get away. But then that frog (who’s sleeping on a log) is in for a similar surprise! He’s attacked by a cat…who needs to jump away from a dog…and on it goes, until not even a shark is free from getting a little fright! Building on repetition...
| Author | Linda Newbery |
| ISBN | 1416971122 |
I'm in love with Posy. This is such a fun, sweet, delightful little book about a fun, sweet, delightful kitten! The illustrations are definitely a bit unusual in style, but I just adore them. And the text is very sparse, just two words per page, rhyming, but it completely captures all the variations in...
| Author | Ian Schoenherr |
| ISBN | 0061724556 |
While the text in the book covers a worthy subject mater- how to use and take care of library books- the rhymes can't cover up the didactic message. The book could have been salvaged by excellent illustrations- perhaps telling a story in the background to add some depth to what is in essence a list of rules...
| Author | Rebecca Emberley |
| ISBN | 1596434643 |
BONK! An award-winning father-daughter team make the sky fall an entirely new way.
You may already know the tale of a not-quite-so-bright little chicken whose encounter with an acorn and gravity convinces him the sky is falling, but youÕve never seen the story told this way. A brilliant collaboration...
The Little Rabbit Who Liked to Say Moo
| Author | Jonathan Allen |
| ISBN | 1905417780 |
Here’s a farmyard frolic that will have kids quacking, oinking, and hee-hawing along with a cast of adorable animals. The fun begins when Calf hears Rabbit out in the field mooing—and feels inspired to give a great big BAA. Why? Because he likes the sound! Before long, Lamb, Piglet, Baby Donkey,...
| Author | Andrea Beaty |
| ISBN | 1416925449 |
Farmer McFitt's seven sheep go on the lam in this amusing picture-book romp, told in rhyming text. From a visit to the zoo to a stint in the circus, these ovine rebels know how to get around. But so too does the farmer, who catches up with them one by one, until they are all shorn. Now it is time for bed...
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| Author | Joe Kulka |
| ISBN | 1575059304 |
As a distant howl echoes through the forest, animals quickly stop what they're doing and run for home. Look out--Wolf's coming! As the shadowy figure gets closer and closer and the day draws to a close, the animals shut the door, pull the shades, and turn out the lights. Soon the wolf's glowing eyes appear...
| Author | Mary Casanova |
| ISBN | 0374356386 |
Sometimes – the more the merrier
I set off one morning in my little red canoe.
My dog wagged his tail.
"Can I come, too?"
"You bet," I said.
"A trip for two – just me and you."
But when "with a slap and a swim" Beaver scrambles in, and then "with a ‘woo-hooo!' – flap!"...
| Author | Michael Ian Black |
| ISBN | 1416948643 |
Some bears will go to any length to get some honey. This one recruits every animal that comes along to form, well, a stack. The result? Tail of the duck to the gluteus maximus of the duck-billed platypus (with many other rears in between). Readers will giggle with delight at the bird's eye view of some hysterical...
Is Everyone Ready for Fun?
| Author | Jan Thomas |
| ISBN | 1442423641 |
Is Everyone Ready for FUN? Then RUN to the library to check out this book! I can't even explain how AMAZING it is. But then again, if you love Jan Thomas the way that I do...then you won't be surprised!
Three cows decide that they are ready for fun. They head for Chicken's small sofa and start jumping....
| Author | Steve Webb |
| ISBN | 0439578442 |
Rhyming has never been so much fun as in Steve Webb's bold, new picture book, which encourages children to read aloud, following the easy and catchy rhythm of the text.
"Skunka Tanka
Skunka Tanka
Tanka Tanka Skunk!
They've got the beat, and so do their friends."
"Meet...
| Author | Maureen Wright |
| ISBN | 0761455604 |
It’s time for Big Bear to hibernate, so Old Man Winter keeps telling him: "Sleep, Big Bear, Sleep." But Big Bear doesn’t hear very well. He thinks Old Man Winter has told him to drive a jeep, to sweep, and to leap. Big Bear just can’t seem to hear what Old Man Winter is saying. Finally, Old Man Winter...
| Author | Anna Dewdney |
| ISBN | 0670011606 |
Roly Poly, very small, doesn?t like new things at all. Meet Roly Poly Pangolin?a little pangolin who?d rather stick close to his mama instead of facing anything unfamiliar. Whether it?s a line of ants, a friendly monkey, or a loud noise, Roly Poly runs the other way. Then he hears something that really...
