The Retired Kid by Jon Agee

A kid gets tired of being a kid and decides to retire.  He goes to live at a retirement community and gets involved with prune juice smoothies, hearing about hip replacements and playing card games.  After 3 weeks, he gets tired of being retired and goes back to being a kid.  Agee is cool.

 

Dog Breath by Dav Pilkey

Hally the dog lives with the Tosis family.  Get it?  Hally . . . Tosis?  Ha ha ha.  As you can imagine, Hally has awful breath and periodically goes around and knocks people out with her stank breath.  There are lots of pictures of green fog stank breath.  Anyway, eventually the family decides they can no longer put up with Hally's breath and try to rid themselves of her.  When a couple of burglars try to rob the Tosis family, Hally inadvertently saves the day . . . with her stank breath!

 

From Seed to Plant by Gail Gibbons

Picture book about the different parts of plants.  There's brief talk about the birds and the bees too.  I learned that there are some seeds that sprout when they're in forest fires. 

 

Terrific by Jon Agee

Eugene is a super negative man who assumes the worst will happen to him.  He wins a trip to Bermuda and ends up on a deserted island where a talking parrot named Lenny advises him on how to build a rescue boat.  He uses his checkered trench coat as a sail.  At sea they run into a fishing boat and are rescued by the crew who recognize Lenny as their parrot.  When they get to Bermuda, Lenny and Eugene disembark together.