You and Me and the Peanut Butter Beast

By Andy Griffiths

Two box-headed adventurers tumble through a series of very deep plot holes toward a giant peanut butter catastrophe.

You and Me are back, two goofy adventurers who wander through their stories with cardboard boxes over their heads, cheerfully clueless about the chaos around them. This time they fall into one enormous plot hole after another, each one deeper and sillier than the last, all while a peanut butter beast oozes toward a gloopy showdown. It's a big, loud, drawing-packed romp built to be devoured, especially by a child who insists they don't like reading.

This is the one for the child who groans at the word reading. There are barely any words per page, the drawings do most of the joke-telling, and the humor is pure silliness: deep plot holes, a peanut butter monster, two heroes who stay boxed the whole way through. If they already love Dog Man, hand this over and don't oversell it. It sells itself by page two. And it's book two of a series, so a hit here buys you a stack of bedtimes.