Laura Numeroff is known by kindergarten teachers everywhere for her series of books that began with If You Give a Mouse a Cookie (1985).However, I found Chimps Don't Wear Glasses a year or so ago and fell in love with the crazy pictures illustrated by Joe Mathieu.
Numeroff has written simple lines like, "Zebras can't cook," and Mathieu has given us a picture (literally) of what that might look like.
My boys love reading this and filled our living room with shouts and snorts at the ridiculous idea of horses hang-gliding and camels singing opera.
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