Because I Stubbed My Toe

By Capstone Young Readers
Price $14.95
Age 5-7 yrs.

Kids delight in this story of a boy who stubs his toe and sets off a sequence of events that grow sillier with each passing moment. A string of animals (a dog, cat, bees, ducks displaced by an old man throwing himself into a pond, a herd of elephants) play key parts in the escalating chain of effect. Man-made objects perpetuate the action as well - a bike with rider gone astray, a teeter-totter that catapults a boy high in the air, a bouncy-house whose collapse disgorges a stream of kids blindly headed towards the zoo, and last but not least, a barrage of flying ice cream treats. The full-page illustrations are the real stars of this hardcover book, each one telling its own zany story rendered to great comic effect. The cumulative impact of the book's images and text is dramatic and contagious, which is to say that readers experience a very high ratio of giggles and laughs per minute.