Jeanne Willis
Author
Publisher
Andersen Press USA
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hippopotamus had a spotamus . . . on her bottomus! "It's a blister!" said her sister. "It's measles!" said Weasel. "It's hippopox!" said Fox. But in the end the spotamus turns out to be something hilariously unexpected!
Author
Publisher
Andersen Press USA
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the other baby animals laugh at Elephant for not being able to jump, he sets out to prove them wrong. Hard as he tries, he just can't jump. But then he realizes that he can do something else that no other animal can do . . .
5) Misery moo
Author
Publisher
Holt
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
A pessimistic cow is so resistant to a lamb's attempts to cheer her up that the previously happy-go-lucky lamb starts to feel just like the miserable cow.
9) The bog baby
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade
Pub. Date
c2008.
Language
English
Description
When two sisters go fishing in a magic pond, they find a winged blue bog baby and take it home with them.
10) Poles apart
Author
Publisher
Nosy Crow, an imprint of Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Everybody knows that penguins live at the South Pole and polar bears live at the North Pole. But what would happen if, one day, an adventurous family of penguins took a wrong turn and ended up at the North Pole?"--Back cover.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When the residents of Storyland have an emergency, the Storyland Ambulance Crew is there to help, as when they care for the cow that trips over the moon, or when they do what all the king's horses and all the king's men couldn't for Humpty Dumpty.
12) Cottonball Colin
Author
Publisher
Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Afraid that her smallest child, Colin, will be hurt if he goes outside or plays, a mother mouse insists that he sit quietly indoors until his grandmother suggests wrapping him in cotton wool, which proves to be effective, but in a most unexpected way.
13) Susan laughs
Author
Publisher
Holt
Pub. Date
c1999.
Language
English
Description
Rhyming couplets describe a wide range of common emotions and activities experienced by a little girl who uses a wheelchair.
Author
Publisher
Little Tiger Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Blue Monster loves brand new things. A fancy new hat . . . a shiny submarine . . . a fabulous funfair . . . and a paradise island, all of his own. But he's still not happy!What will it take for Blue Monster to realise there are some things that money can't buy?
Author
Publisher
Nosy Crow, an imprint of Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A feminist reimagining of classic nursery rhymes depicts a Georgie Porgie who never dares to make the girls cry, a Little Bo-Peep who takes no-nonsense care of her sheep and a woman doctor who puts Humpty Dumpty together again.
16) Don't go there!
Author
Publisher
Andersen Press USA
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Toilet training is tricky, especially if you're not from this planet, unless you know the toilet song" -- publisher's description.
20) I'm in charge
Author
Publisher
Nosy Crow, an imprint of Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
When a little rhino, who likes to make the rules, finds a tree bursting with fruit, he is not about to share it with any of the other animals since he is in charge, but it looks like things are about to change.