Perfect Picture Book Friday
You Must Bring a Hat! (Sterling Children’s Books, 2016) by Simon Philip and Illustrated by Kate Hindley is a humorous picture book about a young boy trying to get into Nigel’s party. The doorman keeps coming up with more and more difficult requirements, like monocles for monkeys and pink tutus for elephants. The twist ending is fun.
This is Simon Philip’s first book. Read more about the author here and see his other picture books here.
You can see a number of Kate Hindley’s illustrations here and read about her and all of her books here.
Tag: humorous picture book
The Wolf, The Duck & The Mouse
Perfect Picture Book Friday
The Wolf, The Duck & The Mouse (Candlewick Press, 2017) by Mac Barnett and illustrated by Jon Klassen is a humorous picture book (no surprise if you are familiar with the author or illustrator).
Mouse meets a wolf and gets swallowed. In the wolf’s stomach he meets a duck who actually enjoys his life there. With advice from the duck, they live happily, but the wolf . . . not so much.
I like the classical feel of this story. The illustrations add to the humor.
Read about Mac and his other books on his website. While there you can see all the awards the book has won. Also check out Jon’s illustrations on tumbler.
Normal Norman
Perfect Picture Book Friday
Normal Norman (Sterling Children’s Books, 2016) by Tara Lazar and illustrated by S.britt is a funny book.
A young Junior Scientist is going to narrate a book for the first time. Her assignment is to define the word Normal. She drafts an orangutan named Norman to be her example of Normal. But things don’t work out as she has planned.
On her website about page, Tara says,
“Who’s Tara?
Street magic performer. Hog-calling champion. Award-winning ice sculptor. These are all things Tara Lazar has never been. Instead, she writes quirky, humorous picture books featuring magical places that everyone will want to visit.”
And, of course, you’ll want to check out her other picture books and more stuff here.
She’s also the founder of Picture Book Idea Month which this year became Storystorm.
I love the landing page of S.britt’s website–it looks like a board game. From there you can read about him, see images from the books he’s done, check out art he’s done for magazines and newspapers, and . . . Oh, just go look yourself–it’ll be fun.
Creepy Carrots
Creepy Carrots by Aaron Reynolds and illustrated by Peter Brown is one of those fun books where the images and words are telling different stories…or are they? I love the idea of the story–Jasper Rabbit can’t get enough carrots…until they start following him. This 2013 Caldecott honor book was published by Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers in 2012. (Thanks to editor Dani Young for introducing me to this book last fall!)
Looking at author Aaron Reynold’s website, I see I need to read more of his books. Just by reading the titles, it’s obvious that his sense of humor extends beyond one title.
Illustrator Peter Brown has a vimeo on how he created the art. Visit his website at www.peterbrownstudio.com/. I was first introduced to Peter’s fabulously fun art with the book Chowder (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2007).
On either the illustrator or author website, you can see listings of the many awards and lists where this book is included.