Raising Sweetness by Diane Stanley and G. Brian Karas
This fun fun book is written in Texan and I only wish I could do a perfect southern accent to read it to you. A loving but illiterate local Sheriff adopts 8 orphans. He is an odd fellow who cleans the windows with butter and puts peanut butter on his spaghetti. When he receives a letter one day, the youngest orphan named Sweetness tries to learn to read by sitting outside a schoolhouse and listening in. One day a surprise visitor arrives at the house--the answer to everyone's dreams.

Grumpy Bird by Jeremy Tankard
A little blue bird is too grumpy to fly and decides to walk instead. Along the way a bunch of other animals decide to walk with him. Grumpy Bird eventually realizes that all these other animals will copy exactly what he does and he begins to have fun. The pictures here are cool and you can see faint newsprint behind the paint.

How Do You Make a Baby Smile? by Philemon Sturges
This is a very simple rhyming book with clear and simple pictures that are brilliant to look at. The book explores how different animals might make their young smile.

Daddy's Song by Leslea Newman
In this is a highly imaginative (or drug trip) rhyming picture book, a father talks about foxes that "play with balls and bats" and snow that "falls down in purple flakes." The end message is that even if the world turns silly through and through, Daddy will still love you. Awwww.