Picture Books to Twist & Turn
Picture books have a wonderful way of bringing stories to life, through engaging text and all sorts of illustrations. And then there are some special picture books that are super interactive! The story almost can’t be contained within the margins of the book and as readers, we need to flip things all around to get the full picture—literally! The wonderful creators have crafted books that we need to twist and turn to see everything, and it makes for a memorable storytime experience. Take a look for yourself!
From Emmy award-winning comedian Raquel D’Apice and bestselling illustrator Heather Fox comes a hilarious take on developmental leaps exploring the bravery it takes to tackle the next big thing—with some help from the things in life that make us feel safe.
This young warrior is ready. He knows he can defeat the scary, hairy monster just like the big kids. But his wizard guardian keeps pointing out how he’s still too young. So what if he still gets blown backward by a gust of wind?! Or still rubs his boogers on the cat? Not having a plan has never stopped him before! And having Blanket by his side may be all he needs to prove to his wizard he’s a highly dangerous six-year-old.
Get ready to turn reading into an interactive game, with lots of laughs along the way, in a choose-your-own-adventure-style quest to find the last page of this book!
With strikingly bold text and art, Books That Drive Kids CRAZY! are perfect picks for emergent readers. The series is all about giving parents, teachers, and storytellers a script for fun reading time together. What is up with this nonsense? Kids will demand to know, and all readers will be howling with laughter all along the way.
The Book That Never Ends finds a clever new way to extend the silly read aloud fun. Similar to a “choose your own adventure” book, readers’ choices will bring them to different pages throughout the book, and they’ll need to work together to puzzle out the correct path that brings them to the ending.
Here are even more books that will DRIVE KIDS CRAZY:
Did You Take the B from My _ook?
This Is a Ball
This Book Is Red
The Shady Acre community is getting ready for the harvest festival, and there’s lots to do to prepare for it. All the trucks have important jobs—but there are many in need of repair. No worries—just call on Little Red to help, and in the nick of time too!
Straw has always had a great thirst for being first, slurping up anything in sight and rushing straight to the finish in every situation. But when his speedy streak gets the best of him, it takes a friend to show Straw how to take his time and drink in the amazing world around him.
Once there was a river flowing through a forest. The river didn’t know it was capable of adventures until a big bear came along. But adventures aren’t any fun by yourself, and so enters Froggy, Turtles, Beaver, Racoons, and Duck.
These very different animals take off downstream, but they didn’t know they needed one another until thankfully, the river came along.
Twiga the giraffe introduces young readers to fascinating facts about giraffes and their relationship to other creatures—all by using math concepts such as measurements, graphs, shapes, word problems, and more.
Readers will learn:
– That a giraffe’s hooves are as large as a medium-sized pizza
– That their heart can pump up to 16 gallons of blood through their body every minute
– And that giraffes can run up to 31 miles per hour – and they weigh over 4,000 pounds!
Lucy is the world’s longest dog, but just how long is she? Like, are we talking pretty long? Or super-crazy number-one-record-breaking BANANAS long? See for yourself in this hilarious picture book by best-selling author-illustrator Avery Monsen. (Warning: the dog is very long.)
Abner and Ian are stuck sideways on the pages of their debut picture book. They can’t start the story like this! Ian is trying to be brave, despite his dizziness and fear of heights. But don’t worry, because Abner has a plan: Readers will shake and turn the book until they get right side up! Sounds easy, right? Think again, because the real solution may be the opposite of what you’d expect.
