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Children's Booklist - Silly Stories Easy Fiction Picture Books


Title: THE STUPIDS HAVE A BALL
Author: Allard, Harry.
Summary: The Stupid family celebrates the children's awful report cards by inviting their relatives to a costume party.


Title: BANTAM OF THE OPERA
Author: Auch, Mary Jane.
Summary: Luigi the rooster wins fame and fortune when the star of the Cosmopolitan Opera Company and his understudy both come down with chicken pox on the same night.


Title: Mrs. Armitage : Queen of the road
Author: Blake, Quentin.
Summary: When the car her uncle gave her loses parts all over the road, Mrs. Armitage takes it in stride, but a gang of friendly motorcyclists is impressed with the results.


Title: THE BIG SNEEZE
Author: Brown, Ruth.
Summary: A farmer sneezes a fly off his nose and causes havoc in the barnyard.


Title: THE SHOPPING BASKET
Author: Burningham, John.
Summary: On his way home from a quick trip to the store, Steven encounters several marauding animals ready to relieve him of his goods.


Title: ALBERT THE BEAR
Author: Butterworth, Nick.
Summary: The toys in Mr. Jolly's toy shop try to cheer up a sad-looking stuffed bear named Albert.


Title: JUST ANOTHER ORDINARY DAY
Author: Clement, Rod.
Summary: Amanda's ordinary day has her riding to school with a Tyrannosaurus rex, having lunch with an alien, sailing a pirate ship at library, and riding home on an elephant.


Title: Double trouble in Walla Walla
Author: Clements, Andrew
Summary: It's an ordinary morning in Walla Walla until Lulu, her teacher, the school nurse, and the principal are all infected by a word warp which makes them reduplicate everything they say.


Title: Buttons
Author: Cole, Brock.
Summary: When their father eats so much that he pops the buttons off his britches, each of his three daughters tries a different plan to find replacements.


Title: Click, clack, moo : cows that type
Author: Cronin, Doreen.
Summary: When Farmer Brown's cows find a typewriter in the barn they start making demands, and go on strike when the farmer refuses to give them what they want.


Title: BARK, GEORGE
Author: Feiffer, Jules.
Summary: Not Available


Title: I know an old lady who swallowed a pie
Author: Jackson, Alison.
Summary: Not Available


Title: The emperor's old clothes
Author: Lasky, Kathryn.
Summary: A continuation of The Emperor's New Clothes in which a simple farmer finds the emperor's old clothes on his way home from the market and decides to put them on.


Title: A treeful of pigs
Author: Lobel, Arnold.
Summary: A farmer's wife uses drastic measures to get her husband to abandon his lazy ways.


Title: Froggy eats out
Author: London, Jonathan
Summary: After Froggy misbehaves at a fancy restaurant, his parents take him to a fast flies restaurant to celebrate their anniversary.


Title: Tabitha's terrifically tough tooth
Author: Middleton, Charlotte.
Summary: A young girl tries everything she can think of to make her loose tooth fall out in time to leave it for the Tooth Fairy.


Title: Underwear
Author: Monsell, Mary Elise.
Summary: Bismark the Buffalo is grumpy and unlovable until his friends teach him how to laugh and show him that wearing colorful underwear can be great fun.


Title: The cow that went oink
Author: Most, Bernard.
Summary: A cow that oinks and a pig that moos are ridiculed by the other barnyard animals until each teaches the other a new sound.


Title: The day Jimmy's boa ate the wash
Author: Noble, Trinka Hakes.
Summary: Jimmy's boa constrictor wreaks havoc on the class trip to a farm.


Title: Bob
Author: Pearson, Tracey Campbell.
Summary: While looking for someone to teach him how to crow, a rooster learns to sound like many different animals and finds that his new skills come in handy.


Title: Dogzilla : starring Flash, Rabies, Dwayne, and introducing Leia as the Monster
Author: Pilkey, Dav
Summary: A monstrous mutt terrorizes the residents of Mousopolis.


Title: The silly gooses
Author: Pilkey, Dav
Summary: Mr. Goose and Miss Goose, who are always doing very silly things, become the Silly Gooses when they marry and start a family.


Title: The soccer mom from outer space
Author: Saltzberg, Barney.
Summary: The night before Lena's first soccer game, her father tells her a story about how his mother used to act bizarre at his soccer games and embarrass him.


Title: Spaghetti Eddie
Author: SanAngelo, Ryan.
Summary: The hero of this quirky urban folktale is a helpful boy named Eddie, who faces life's problems with a bowl of spaghetti.


Title: Baloney, Henry P.
Author: Scieszka, Jon.
Summary: A transmission received from outer space in a combination of different Earth languages tells of an alien schoolboy's fantastic excuse for being late to school again.


Title: A giraffe and a half
Author: Silverstein, Shel.
Summary: Not Available


Title: Swollobog
Author: Taylor, Alastair.
Summary: On an outing to the fair, a perpetually hungry little dog swallows a helium balloon and leads his owners on a wild chase.


Title: Why the banana split
Author: Walton, Rick.
Summary: The people and objects of a town panic and flee when they see a Tyrannosaurus rex approaching, but they discover that only the bananas have anything to fear from this fruit-eating dinosaur.


Title: Falling for Rapunzel
Author: Wilcox, Leah.
Summary: A prince tries to get Rapunzel to throw down her hair so he can rescue her, but she mishears him and throws down random objects from her room instead.


Title: The napping house
Author: Wood, Audrey.
Summary: Six original songs accompany the story of the granny, child, dog, cat, mouse, and flea who settle down for a not-so-restful nap on a rainy afternoon.


Title: Silly Sally
Author: Wood, Audrey.
Summary: A rhyming story of Silly Sally, who makes many friends as she travels to town--backward and upside down.