OK, OK I know that The Book With No Pictures* is a children’s book and I’m not a child, nor do I actually have any children but that didn’t stop me loving it. It’s totally irreverent and completely silly but that’s what makes it so irresistibly charming.
It does exactly what it says on the cover, there is no single picture to be found in this book. There are a lot of colours and crazy fonts to keep a young eye entertained. Reading this book to a youngster isn’t so much a story telling exercise but a piece of performance art. If you really commit to reading this to a little one you’ll have them in a heap of giggles by approximately page six, at the very latest.
To prove it here’s a video of Novak himself reading it to a bunch of school children.
I may be about 25 years above the target age for The Book With No Pictures but I think it’s fantastic and I know of a certain few kiddywinks that I can’t wait to share it with. I think I’ll just make sure that it’s not just before bedtime because calming them down after this may not be the easiest job in the world.
Kisses,
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