This Book Is Red (Books That Drive Kids CRAZY! Series #3)

by Beck Stanton, Matt Stanton

Overview

This clever companion to This Is a Ball and Did You Take the B from My _ook? is the perfect read-aloud for the giggling masses who love Hervé Tullet's Press Here, Lane Smith's It's a Book!, and BJ Novak's The Book With No Pictures.

The Books That Drive Kids CRAZY! series offers parents, teachers, and storytellers a hilarious script for fun reading time with children. In book 3, This Book Is Red, something is clearly bonkers when the narrator insists that frogs and penguins are obviously the same color as lobsters—and the claims get more outrageous from there. What is up with this nonsense? Kids will demand to know—and all readers will be howling with laughter all along the way. With strikingly simple text and art, Books That Drive Kids CRAZY! are ideal picks for emergent readers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780316434492
Publisher:	Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Publication date:	04/10/2018
Series:	Books That Drive Kids CRAZY! Series , #3
Pages:	32
Sales rank:	558,278
Product dimensions:	7.60(w) x 10.50(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Beck Stanton is the co-creator of the Books That Drive Kids Crazy series and a mother, primary school teacher, and the creative director/owner of mybabymoments.com.au. She has worked extensively with children throughout her teaching career and in roles that include before-and-after school care center director, nanny, and youth and children's worker.

Matt Stanton is the co-creator of the Books That Drive Kids Crazy series and the co-creator of the bestselling Fart Monster picture book series, and has sold more than 100,000 copies of his books abroad. He is also the creative director of HarperCollinsPublishers Australia and New Zealand.

They live by the beach in Sydney with their daughter Bonnie and son Boston.

Editorial Reviews

05/14/2018
In this third installment of the Books That Drive Kids Crazy! series, an unseen narrator asserts that a yellow crown, green tie, and purple glasses are “all RED! And by the end of this book you will think they are red too.” In fact, the narrator argues that just about everything in the book is actually red—including a frog and penguin appearing in their spare graphics. The authors employ a variety of deductive arguments and logical fallacies: “Fergus is the same color as this apple. Apples are red. See! Fergus must be red.” The assertions can be not only aggravating, but feel personal, to boot: “When you were a baby you thought spoons were airplanes. You were wrong then and you’re wrong now!” A rather smug conclusion introduces the homonyms of “red” and “read.” Readers who talk back to the voice of the deceitful, know-it-all “grown-up” are interpreting the story just right. Ages 4–8. (Apr.)

Publishers Weekly

Praise for The Books That Drive Kids Crazy: This Book Is Red:


"A rollicking read for children and adults alike."—Kirkus Reviews

"More gleeful cognitive foolery from the creators of This Is a Ball and Did You Take the B from My _ook?....A storytime winner."—Booklist

Praise for Books That Drive Kids CRAZY!: Did You Take the B from My _ook?:
"A winning bit of interactive silliness that offers insight into the way small changes can have big results where words are concerned."
—Publishers Weekly

Praise for Books That Drive Kids CRAZY!: This Is a Ball:
"A string of narratorial mistakes...gives children a chance to gleefully correct the adult reading it aloud....Another metafictive storytime crowd-pleaser."
—Kirkus Reviews


"Funny, clever, deliciously dry...this book encourages kids to think outside the square, and hopefully, somewhere deep in that unlimited subconscious, understand that what we see is all about perception. What a powerful thought."—Kids' Book Review (Australia)

"[The Book with No Pictures, Press Here, and Mix It Up] are international bestsellers and deservedly so, but closer to home we now have a book which is just as delightfully frustrating, clever, and nuts."—Children's Book Daily (Australia)

"Kids will fall into fits of giggles as you try to tell them a car is a bike, and they'll only stop laughing long enough to correct you or beg to hear it all again."—Newcastle Herald (Australia)

"Not only does this book encourage object recognition, it's crazy fun for your kids."—Perth's Child (Australia)

From the Publisher

2018-01-13
"This book is RED," says the cover of the picture book, except the word "RED" happens to be the color violet.The Australian import follows a pattern familiar to readers of other books in the Books That Drive Kids Crazy! series. The narrator begins by trying to convince young readers that the different colors in the book—as represented by the green frog, the black-and-white penguin, and the red rose, among others—are all red. The blurb on the back cover goes so far as to enlist the help of adults to "convince the nearest kid that everything in this book is actually red. And we mean everything," which makes the book a fun endeavor for adult and child alike. The design, too, is much like the other books in the series: most versos consist of a solid color that makes up the background, overlaid with bold text, and there's a white page opposite them. Each white page has an object or two on it, which the narrator invariably insists is red. The Stantons' narrative is witty, silly, and interactive. The circuitous logic adds to the hilarity of the situation. For instance, the page with the penguin holding a rose reads "Roses are red. So Rose the penguin is red. Are you calling me a liar?" The book finally ends with a play on the words "red" and "read," if only to prove that the narrator was right all along.A rollicking read for children and adults alike. (Picture book. 4-8)

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