Having no pictures, this book can fire children’s imaginations to draw the pictures that it conjures up how about drawing a hippo called Boo Boo Butt, robot monkeys or even a robot monkey whose head is made of blueberry pizza!? The words in this book could be extended into activities for children such as writing their own nonsense words and trying to get people to pronounce them. This is of course, hilarious for any young child as they hear a grown up say things like, “I am a monkey who taught myself to read.” and “my head is made of blueberry pizza.” As well as randomly having to shout out nonsense words there is also the opportunity for the adult to burst in to a rather absurd song about eating ants. The book then takes complete advantage of that by presenting the reader with all manner of silly things to say out loud. This book is designed to be read aloud to a child and starts by letting them know that when someone is reading a book that means they have to read every word, no matter what it says. Novak and published by Puffin is a picture book with one major difference, there are of course, no pictures. When I asked if he’d like to read a book called The Book With No Pictures during a trip to the library he exclaimed, “No pictures? No way that will be really boring!” I convinced him to trust me on this and once he’d reluctantly agreed to listen he was not disappointed. “And what is the use of a book,” thought Alice, “without pictures.” This quote from Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland is one that my four-year-old very much agreed with until recently.
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