[anita Posts: 319 Status: Offline I love kids' books! WWW]

I'm looking for Picture Books where the main character changes from one thing to another. (like from one animal to another type of animal). Does anyone have any examples?

thanks

[Vonna Posts: 1,766 Status: Offline WWW]

The Very Hungry Caterpillar is the only one I can think of, or perhaps at a stretch The Ugly Duckling.

[Vijaya Posts: 6,638 Status: Offline BEAUTY WWW]

Can't think of any except for insect metamorphoses as Vonna points out, but these are natural transformations. It's coded into your DNA. It would be kind of delusional if a cat turned into a dog, no?

Imaginative play is a whole another thing. I've seen many PBs where a character (child or animal) imagines being different things (either animals or type of person, like pirate, or a cat thinking it's a lion) but it's very clear that a cat is a cat is a cat.

Sorry not to be more helpful.
Vijaya

[lrzajac Posts: 40 Status: Offline I write science as a story, sprinkled with art WWW]

A Bad Case of Stripes

[Darcy Miller Posts: 37 Status: Offline This looks like a zombie pen, Sammy.]

http://www.amazon.com/Mixed-Up-Chameleon-Eric-Carle/dp/0064431622 "The Mixed Up Chameleon" was the first one that came to mind, but there are others, typically that follow a caterpillar growing into a butterfly, or an ugly ducking type story.

[anita Posts: 319 Status: Offline I love kids' books! WWW]

Thanks for the suggestions. I'm looking for things more like Sylvester and the Magic Pebble, where Sylvester wishes to be turned into a rock and is. Or Brush, where a boy wants a pet and ties a Brush to a string and the Brush starts to act like a dog. Or The Little Rabbit that Wanted Red Wings, in which a rabbit wishes he were different types of animals, ends up sprouting red wings, etc.

[Melissa K Posts: 655 Status: Offline]

Skippyjon Jones comes to mind. Not sure it's quite on target, but maybe. 

[DianaM Posts: 968 Status: Offline Writer, rhymer, runner, punner. WWW]

Hmmm. Piggie and Gerald: I am a Frog, by Mo Willems.

And maybe, Fish is Fish, by Leo Lionni. ? Not sure that's exactly right.

Oh, and a non-fiction possibility is "Little Skink's Tail".

[Anne Marie Posts: 2,852 Status: Offline VAMPIRINA season 3 is on Disney Junior now! WWW]

In IMOGENE'S ANTLERS, she grows antlers.

[Christine B. Posts: 367 Status: Offline WWW]

I Wish That I had Duck Feet -- child turns into all sorts of other animals

[anita Posts: 319 Status: Offline I love kids' books! WWW]

I Wish That I had Duck Feet -- child turns into all sorts of other animals

That sounds exactly like what I'm looking for! Thanks, everyone. Edited to add,

I thought that it sounded right, but that's a kid wishing for various appendages, I want something where they actually turn into something. Imogene's Antlers is a little closer, I think. Sylvester is the best one I've come up with. Thanks for all the ideas!

[heatherayris Posts: 163 Status: Offline WWW]

I'm not sure if this is the type of thing you're looking for, but in my book, BEDTIME MONSTER, the boy turns into an actual monster.

Also, maybe GREEN WILMA by Ted Arnold?

[anita Posts: 319 Status: Offline I love kids' books! WWW]

I'm not sure if this is the type of thing you're looking for, but in my book, BEDTIME MONSTER, the boy turns into an actual monster.

Also, maybe GREEN WILMA by Ted Arnold?

Thank you. Those sound great!