What's With This Room? by Tom Lichtenheld

Fun rhyming book about a boy's disastrously messy room.  My favorite part is when the mom is talking about how he used to think there was a monster under his bed and how the monster exists but died when it ate the boy's sock.  Eventually he blasts his room clean with a big explosion.

 

No Such Things by Bill Peet

Peet reminds me of Dr. Seuss with his menagerie of fantastical, imaginative creatures.  The best creature is called a Mopwoggin and at the end of its tail is a toupee that it places on top of its bald, monklike head.  The pictures are very good in this book, they're not the same style as Seuss's pictures but they are still good. 

 

Cecily G. and the 9 Monkeys by H. A. Rey

Well well well, this is the first book about Curious George!  Cecily G. is a lonely giraffe who meets up with a family of 9 monkeys.  They all become fast friends and the monkeys love playing with Cecily.  There's a picture where they tie Cecily's neck to a tree and ski down her back.  I'm not quite sure why it was George that spun off into his own series and not his other brothers and sisters.

 

When Woman Became the Sea by Susan Strauss

This is a Costa Rican folktale about Thunder and the creation of the first woman who becomes a tree, then bursts open and becomes the sea. 

 

How the Ox Star Fell From Heaven by Lily Toy Hong

This is an old Chinese story about oxen in heaven who were cast down to earth when they relay a message to farmers incorrectly. 

 

Circus Girl by Jack Sendak and illustrated by Maurice Sendak

Here is a long picture book about a circus girl who ventures outside the circus to discover what the world is like.  She was having this weird dream where everyone had the same face and people couldn't ID their own kids.  When she goes out for a day, she ties a rope between two trees and does a tight rope walk above the town to observe these noncircus folk.