Wacky Wednesday by Theo LeSieg

This book has a really good rhyming scheme throughout the entire story. It is a creative way to talk about those days when nothing goes right. This is also a great counting book because every new page contains a new thing that is wacky or out of place. The child can look at the pictures to try and find all of the wacky things on the page. The illustrations are really fun and it is actually pretty tricky to find all of the things that are out of place. The wacky details are things like; a missing door, tiger in a stroller, girl with no legs, shoes on the ceiling, a teacher on roller skates, etc. The number of wacky things goes up to twenty and things get extremely chaotic. It is funny because the pictures show everyone acting like all of these wacky things are completely normal. I really liked how the author ended the story with the child back safe in her bed with all the wacky things gone. She then refers to the very first wacky thing the little girl saw being gone. This would be great for a beginning reader, maybe in kindergarten. It teaches things like rhyming and counting. All of the words are beginner level.