Adam Rubin
Dragons Love Tacos
Absurdist comedy gold for the 4–6 crowd; the joke structure (dragons love tacos, but hate certain taco ingredients) sustains multiple reads without grating.
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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.