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The dynamic duo you never knew you needed, teaming up to give kids a picture book packed with everyday life, extraordinary adventure, and layers upon layers to love and laugh at.

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Listen, this book is boring. We're telling you it's boring. It's in the title of the book—in fact, it's THE MOST BORING BOOK EVER! And created by #1 New York Times bestsellers Brandon Sanderson and Kazu Kibuishi!

Don't peek behind the cover! Don't look at the pictures! And definitely don't follow along with the rip-roaring adventure the boy is experiencing. Stay focused on mundane things like sitting in chairs and doing homework. Any report of dragons or marauding airships is ridiculous! This book is BORING!

"Acclaimed best-seller Brandon Sanderson has great fun with The Most Boring Book Ever, which—spoiler alert—is a lot more dangerous and exciting than it pretends to be." —Parade Magazine

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ISBN-13:	9781250843661
Publisher:	Roaring Brook Press
Publication date:	09/24/2024
Pages:	48
Sales rank:	284
Product dimensions:	10.20(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Brandon Sanderson grew up in Lincoln, Nebraska. He lives in Utah with his wife and children and teaches creative writing at Brigham Young University. His bestsellers have sold 34 million copies worldwide and include the Mistborn saga; the Stormlight Archive novels; and other novels, including Tress of the Emerald Sea, The Rithmatist, Steelheart, and Skyward. He won a Hugo Award for The Emperor's Soul, a novella set in the world of his acclaimed first novel, Elantris. Additionally, he completed Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time®. Visit his website for behind-the-scenes information on all his books.

Kazu Kibuishi is the writer and artist of the New York Times–bestselling Amulet graphic novel series. He is also the editor/art director/cover artist of the Explorer and Flight comic anthologies, and the creator of the webcomic Copper. His debut graphic novel, Daisy Kutter: The Last Train, won a YALSA Best Books for Young Adults Award. In 2012, he illustrated the covers for the Harry Potter fifteenth-anniversary-edition paperbacks. Kazu is married to author Amy Kim Kibuishi. They reside in the Texas Hill Country with their two children.

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08/19/2024
Opening this tongue-in-cheek title, readers will sense that no self-respecting creator would willingly call a book “the most boring ever” without having something up their narrative sleeve. For Sanderson (the Skyward series) and Kibuishi (the Amulet series), that something is the interplay between a deadpan voice, shown in text banners, and action-packed, digitally colored pen-and-ink artwork. As the text kicks off, “A boy sat in a chair,” a pale-skinned, redheaded child in an oversize derby perches in a seat that looks like it’s been borrowed from the stage set of a Viking epic. But though “sitting in chairs is boring,” successive visuals prove otherwise, propelling the boy into the sky, where a dogfight explodes between steampunk-style flying vehicles. Other “boring” activities follow, including bird-watching, thinking about laundry, and contemplating math homework. While no birds are perceived, the youth does encounter a magnificent dragon—red-scaled, yellow-eyed, and toothy—while laundry and math come in handy as he careens among the brightly colored tile roofs of an elaborately drawn town. In this world, words and pictures collide rather than collaborate—and the result is one wild ride. Background characters are portrayed with various skin tones. Ages 4–8. Author’s agent: Eddie Schneider, JABberwocky Literary. Illustrator’s agent: Judy Hansen, Hansen Literary. (Sept.)

Publishers Weekly

"A surefire crowd-pleaser." — Booklist
"In this world, words and pictures collide rather than collaborate—and the result is one wild ride." — Publishers Weekly

From the Publisher

2024-08-30
In this collaboration between sci-fi novelist Sanderson and Amulet creator Kibuishi, an unreliable narrator informs readers that here be no dragons.
“A boy sat in a chair.” The book opens on a bespectacled, light-skinned child in old-fashioned attire. The narration continues, “That’s it. He just sat in a chair,” while on the opposite page, the boy’s chair has unexpectedly whisked him heavenward. The narrator attempts to convince readers that just sitting in a chair is boring. As the story continues, however, the boy is attacked by an array of sky ruffians operating vessels; fight scenes and impressive explosions ensue. A dragon makes an appearance as the narrator drones on about how dull the story is. Kibuishi’s detailed cartoon images depict an enticing steampunk-esque world. Adults reading this book to kids might want to read the text first without the pictures; on a second run they can show off the images, neatly illustrating the important interplay of text and visuals in sequential art. Unfortunately, for all that the illustrations maintain the action at a fair clip, near the end the plot grows muddled as the boy gets out of his chair but then tumbles to the ground: Was he falling and then trying to stop himself? Some adult intervention may be required to clarify what precisely is happening on the page.
Sky-based pyrotechnics make for a fun if somewhat confusing telling.(Picture book. 4-7)

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