This is very nice and I can see myself acting as the little mouse and engaging the children to be the other animals.

They are wonderful stories with great art work.

by Maurice Sendak.

I actually read that one to my son's class (He is 38 now!).

I'm not sure I can help much.

My first book was from an English writter : Enyd Blyton. Noody books.

I think they are not too outdated.

It's a great book - and the poetry....so sophisticated. And yet perfect for kids.

My daughter was a big fan!

He has two others -well worth reading: The Remarkable Farkle McBride
and
Marsupial Sue

eta: here's a link of someone reading it - on youtube (not the best reading - she really mangles the poetry, but you can fix it, I'm sure .

That has to be really good.

I had this book years ago for my son, loaned it and lost it, and have never seen another copy.

A number of rhyming questions a la 'Do baby bears...?' Each one to be answered with a loud NO!!

Most appropriate for kids who love to say, yell no.

I could act/ overreact to the "nos" and make a game of it.

My son adored this and years later grabbed the copy I found at a thrift store.

He loved the color red, so we re-did the story with red.

Once you get the pattern down - drawing a colored line where ever you want to go - you and the child/children can expand the story, devising ever more places to go with the crayon.

IIRC, the book is still in print. I believe I saw it in the children's section at B and Noble within the last few years.

BTW, he loved to draw a red line along as we went through the story. Ie, he did his own illustrations.