If the over-the-top title piece in A Pizza the Size of the Sun—with its cosmic pie and gleeful, piling-on toppings—made you grin, you’ll love Silverstein’s zany, rhyme-rich snapshots. The same quick-hit, read-aloud energy that powers Prelutsky’s tongue twisters and snap-ending verses is all over classics like “Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out” and the madcap adventures sprinkled through this collection.

Loved how some Pizza the Size of the Sun poems spiral down the page, make shapes, or flip direction midstream? This curated set of concrete poems leans into that same visual mischief, turning words into pictures and patterns. It scratches the exact itch for poems that aren’t just read—they’re seen and followed across the page like a maze.

If you enjoyed dipping in and out of A Pizza the Size of the Sun—grabbing a quick laugh from a single page, then another—this delivers that same snackable rhythm. Like Prelutsky’s quick twists and punchlines, Harris plays with expectations, launches mock-arguments with the reader, and nails those last-line zingers that make you flip back and read the poem again out loud.

If the giant-sun pizza and cartoonishly exaggerated scenarios in A Pizza the Size of the Sun tickled your imagination, you’ll vibe with Brown’s delightfully off-kilter creatures, outfits, and places. He leans into the same dream-logic silliness and joyful word-juggling that make Prelutsky’s most absurd images stick in your head.

If the brisk, musical lines in A Pizza the Size of the Sun made it effortless to read poems out loud—tongue twisters and all—Nesbitt’s schoolyard shenanigans will hit the same sweet spot. He keeps the language clean and punchy, rolling along with the rhythmic snap that makes kids giggle and grown-ups want to perform just one more poem.