Here's something fun. Summaries of those books used to teach kids how to read in elementary school. The ones that are barely 10 pages in length with 16-point font. Looking back, their simplicity is simply astounding.

For example, the book that was either constantly checked out, or stolen from my elementary school's library:
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

The english alphabet becomes animate and uses it's new found life to race to the top of some tree in correct sequence... I'll spoil the ending: THE TREE BREAKS, okay?


This next book got lost in some kid's desk for most of the year:
Round as a Pancake

Bunch of stuff happens to imply a circular shape. That's it.


I was in primary school in the early nineties, when SNES and dinosaurs were popular so we read:
Thunder

Bunch of kids hang out with some sauropod, some stuff happens. I don't remember if at the end they have a birthday party or if he DIES. Maybe both.