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Funny books for Toddlers
I love comedy and standup, and I want to share some of that humour with my toddler. I am looking for suggestions.
This is our funny selection from favorite to least funny "don't let the pigeon ride the bus", "Oh no George", "don't push the button!", "Goodnight Gorilla", "the wonky donky".
Edit1: Thank you guys so much for all the suggestions! I will have to make a list and go through it little by little!
Edit2:
Here's the full list, deduplicated:
Most mentioned (multiple comments)
- The Book With No Pictures (BJ Novak)
- I Want My Hat Back / any Jon Klassen
- Elephant and Piggie series (Mo Willems) esp. "Elephants Cannot Dance", "Listen to My Trumpet", "Waiting Is Not Easy", "Pigs Make Me Sneeze", "We Are in a Book"
- The Future Book (Mac Barnett)
- Don't Trust Fish
- Sheep in a Jeep
- James Marshall books (George and Martha, Cut Ups)
- Watermelon Seed (Greg Pizolli)
Single mentions
- Bark, George
- Can You Make a Scary Face?
- Don't Push the Button!
- Ten Minutes til Bedtime
- Blue Hat, Green Hat / Sandra Boynton generally
- The Wrong Book (Drew Daywalt)
- Bathe the Cat!
- Knuffle Bunny
- Click Clack Moo
- Creepy Carrots / Creepy Crayon / Creepy Pair of Underwear (Jasper Rabbit series)
- Interrupting Chicken
- How Dinosaurs Went Extinct
- Grumpy Monkey
- Chez Bob (Bob Shea)
- Z is for Moose
- Zebra and Yak: The Backwards Alphabet Book
- We Are Definitely Human
- Who Stole My Hat? (Jimmy Kimmel goose book)
- The Dog and Pony Show: Dance Pants
- My Pet Feet (Josh Funk)
- We Are the Wibbly
- Giggle Giggle Quack (Betsy Lewin)
- Pig the Pug series
- There's a Monster in My Book (series)
- The Monster at the End of This Book
- David's Father
- Tyrannosaurus Rex vs. Edna the Very First Chicken
- Freddie Two Pants
- Nino!
- Pumpkin Trouble / anything by Jan Thomas
- Comet the Unstoppable Reindeer (Jim Benton)
- Where's My Cow (Terry Pratchett)
- I Eat Poop!!
- I Simply Cannot Wait to Grow a Beard (self-pub, OffRampApproaching)
- Peek-a-Bruce
- Dougie the Dung Beetle
- Pie-Rats!
- Fluffalo Buffalo
- Sleepy Sheepy
- Zip Zap Wickity Wack
- Llama Destroys the World
- Princess and the Pony
- Butt Out (Heath McKenzie)
- Hop on Pop (Dr. Seuss)
- Wacky Wednesday (Dr. Seuss)
- Great Now We've Got Barbarians
- Wolfie the Bunny
- Mother Bruce
- We Don't Eat Our Classmates
- Three Billy Goats Gruff (by Barnett)
- Duck Duck Bruce (Higgins — mentioned as least funny, but still mentioned)
- Hiccuppotomus
- Chimpansneeze
u/TheWiseApprentice — 5 days ago