Bob Shea

"Dinosaur doesn't need to use the potty. Even when he's making lemonade, running through the sprinkler, and splashing in puddles. See? He's doing his victory dance. Wait, is that a victory dance, or something else?"--P. [4] of cover.

Dinosaur spends a day "helping" his mother, from the time he roars to awaken her until their final contest at bedtime.

Ballet Cat and her cousin Goat try to outdo one another while putting on show for their grandmother.

A boastful shark is not afraid of anything, which impresses his underwater friends until they ask about spiders.

Ballet Cat and her friend Butter Bear have practiced a dance to perform for an audience, but Butter Bear will need a lot of encouragement to try the super high leaps.

Concerned about losing friends during the first week of school, Unicorn upgrades his fabulousness.

When Reuben the bear brings doughnuts to his forest friends, they discover that his pants are wet and he angrily accuses them of the dirty deed.

With humor and sympathy, Bob Shea looks at the chaos of life with a baby as amiably narrated by the new arrival. Repeating the mantra (and blithe explanation) “because I am a baby,” the tiny narrator leads us through scenes of exhaustion, grumpiness, squishy diapers, spilled milk, cowering kittens, and chubby overfed pups (oopsie!). Playing against the simple, matter-of-fact text are freewheeling illustrations of mess and mayhem, in which the...