 | Good Night, Gorilla by Peggy Rathmann
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 The very first silly book for baby. Wordless.
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 | Bark, George
Buy new: $12.23 / Used from: $7.03 Extremely bizarre, the vet finds several animals inside of George the dog which are causing him to make other animal sounds.
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 | Mabela the Clever by Margaret Read MacDonald
Buy new: $6.95 / Used from: $3.17 A slightly silly moralistic tale about a clever mouse (Mabela) who outsmarts a clever cat.
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 | Julius (Series Title Should Be Deleted) by Angela Johnson
Buy used from: $22.00 Maya's grandfather gives her a pig. Love the artwork!
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 | Burnt Toast on Davenport Street by Tim Egan
Buy new: $6.95 / Used from: $0.02 Completely absurd, two dogs encounter a magic fly who grants them three wishes. Even the dogs think this is too absurd to believe, until the wishes come true.
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 | Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! by Mo Willems
Buy used from: $7.55 A new classic, and the silliest of the Willems books so far.
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 | Duck on a Bike by David Shannon
Buy new: $11.55 / Used from: $2.20 Duck teaches other barnyard animals to ride bikes.
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 | One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish (I Can Read It All by Myself) by Dr. Seuss
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $0.01 THE classic silly book. All Seuss books are absurd to some degree, but this one seems to be the oddest (and my favorite).
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 | Green Eggs and Ham (I Can Read It All by Myself Beginner Books) by Dr. Seuss
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $0.01 Almost as bizarre as OFTFRFBF. Needs no introduction, I'm sure.
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 | Walter the Farting Dog by William Kotzwinkle
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $0.72 The silliness of the artwork appealed to me, but this book doesn't really stand up to repeated readings.
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 | No Laughing, No Smiling, No Giggling by James Stevenson
Buy used from: $6.24 Completely bizarre, really appeals to preschoolers.
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 | Captain Flinn and the Pirate Dinosaurs by Giles Andreae
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $3.62 A daydreaming schoolboy named Flinn encounters not just pirates, but pirate DINOSAURS - a joy to read and re-read.
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 | Henry and the Buccaneer Bunnies by Carolyn Crimi
Buy new: $10.87 / Used from: $0.65 Perhaps pirate books just lend themselves to absurdity? These are the baaaadest bunnies on the sea ... ridiculously silly, I literally laughed out loud the first time, but it doesn't really hold up to repeated re-reads.
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 | If You Give a Pig a Pancake (If You Give...) by Laura Numeroff
Buy new: $11.55 / Used from: $0.01 The entire series is silly fun.
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 | June 29, 1999 by David Wiesner
Buy new: $5.95 / Used from: $1.74 Giant vegetables in the sky. Wordless.
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 | Olive, the Other Reindeer Book and Doll by Vivian Walsh
Buy new: $14.93 / Used from: $4.98 Olive the dog is completely lovable.
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 | Horace and Morris Join the Chorus (but what about Dolores?) by James Howe
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.90 Not as silly as the other books on this list, but it has enough side jokes (esp in the art) to merit inclusion here.
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 | Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type by Doreen Cronin
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $0.99 |
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