Tiny Tales are my reviews about books under the Middle Grade reading level.
The Book With No Pictures by B.J. Novak
Publisher/Year: Dial | September 30, 2014
Pages: 48
Series: None
Genre: Early Reader (k-3rd)
Format: Hardback
Source: Borrowed
Summary (From Goodreads)
You might think a book with no pictures seems boring and serious. Except . . . here’s how books work. Everything written on the page has to be said by the person reading it aloud. Even if the words say . . .
BLORK. Or BLUURF.
Even if the words are a preposterous song about eating ants for breakfast, or just a list of astonishingly goofy sounds like BLAGGITY BLAGGITY and GLIBBITY GLOBBITY.
Cleverly irreverent and irresistibly silly, The Book with No Pictures is one that kids will beg to hear again and again. (And parents will be happy to oblige.)
First Off…
I found out about this book through this video:
Thoughts:
This is a great idea for a book! You can tell that the the kids were eating it up in the video. The book has a lot of the same nonsense, but I love that the focus of the book is using a kids imagination. Part of the magic of reading is coming up with the worlds and characters purly through your imagination, and this book introduces kids to this before they can on their own. It really is a brilliantly done book.
Love this book. I’ll be buying it for other people’s kids for now, but there is a possibility I will own it just for myself, because it really is a great concept.