If they loved Bunny vs Monkey
Books like Bunny vs Monkey
Loud, daft, full colour comic chaos for fans of Jamie Smart’s forest and the rest of the Phoenix stable.
Bunny vs Monkey runs on a very particular fuel: a forest full of daft animals, an escalating arms race of ridiculous inventions, and slapstick that never lets up. It began in The Phoenix, the British weekly comic, and the books here share that DNA: short, loud, full colour comic strips that reward rereading and don't take themselves remotely seriously.
We've put Jamie Smart's other worlds near the top, then widened out to the rest of the Phoenix stable and a few transatlantic cousins who match the chaos. These suit roughly six to ten, land beautifully with reluctant and confident readers alike, and are exactly the sort of thing that gets passed around a classroom until the spine gives out.
How we choose these books
Every list here is shaped by hand. We begin from our catalogue’s structured data, age fit, tone, theme and reading load, then read back through the candidates and keep only the titles that genuinely belong, in an order that helps a child grow into the subject. Nothing is generated and left to stand; a person decides what stays.
Questions parents ask
- What age are these books for?
- The titles on this list suit roughly ages 5–11, though every child reads at their own pace; the age on each book is a guide, not a rule.
- What should my child read after Bunny vs Monkey?
- Good next reads include Looshkin: The Maddest Cat in the World, Dog Man, The Bad Guys, chosen here because they share what makes Bunny vs Monkey work, matched by age and reading confidence.
- How were these books chosen?
- We start from our catalogue's structured data, age fit, tone, theme and reading load, then read back through the candidates by hand and keep only the ones that genuinely belong, ordered to help a child grow into the subject.