Your child tore through every Dog Man and is standing at the shelf asking for more. Good news: there's a whole aisle of funny, full-color, comic-driven books waiting, and this is the shelf of the best read-alikes. Any single one is a happy afternoon. Pick by your child's age and by which kind of funny sounds most like them — puns, silly friends, or making their own comics — and hand it over.
Every book here scratches the same itch Dog Man does — a funny, full-color, comic-driven read that a child flies through and immediately rereads. Reach for the one that fits the child in front of you. InvestiGators is the closest cousin, all fast puns and toilet gadgets. Cat Child Comic Club is by Dav Pilkey himself, so it's the same humor exactly, plus it shows your child how to make their own comics. The Bad Guys is the pick for the child who wants a bit more heist-and-action swagger. Bird & Squirrel adds a real adventure with a scaredy-bird hero. And for the youngest, Narwhal and Pizza and Taco are the gentlest, silliest, easiest of the bunch — a whole graphic novel a brand-new reader can finish and feel proud of. Hand over whichever sounds most like your child and let them wear it out.