Brenda Lansdown
Galumph
A short, punchy read-aloud that works well for kids who love physical comedy but offers little in the way of narrative depth or character development.
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by Don Wood
Picture book · ages 4–8 · 480L · 1985
Peak silly-for-silly's-sake: a king who won't leave his bathtub and the increasingly absurd attempts to coax him out — illustrated with dense, laugh-out-loud detail on every page.
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by Simms Taback
Picture book · ages 2–5 · 2001
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