Books That Drive Kids CRAZY!: Did You Take the B from My _ook?

by Beck Stanton, Matt Stanton

Overview

This clever companion to This Is a Ball 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 together. Book 1, Did You Take the B from My _ook? is missing one very important letter due to one very powerful sneeze! Now, the _eetle wearing _lue _oots is _ouncing on the bed instead of wearing blue boots and bouncing on the bed...and it just gets sillier 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:	9780316434461
Publisher:	Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Publication date:	06/13/2017
Series:	Books That Drive Kids CRAZY! Series , #1
Sold by:	Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format:	eBook
File size:	4 MB
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

04/03/2017
The Stantons, an Australian husband-and-wife duo, launch the Books that Drive Kids Crazy! series by appealing to children’s eagerness to correct something they know to be wrong. “Do you have favorite things?” asks an unseen narrator. “I have favorite things. They are bats and beaches and bread and bushes and bulldozers.” When a sneeze blows all of the Bs out of the book, words’ meanings get garbled. A butterfly becomes an “_utterfly,” a beetle an “_eetle,” and blue boots “_lue _oots.” Simple line drawings featuring bright pops of color document the growing chaos (“What? The _eetle is wearing the _lue _oots and jumping on the _ed!”), which can only be contained with readers’ help: “Come back B!!!!” It’s a winning bit of interactive silliness that offers insight into the way small changes can have big results where words are concerned. Ages 4–8. (May)

Publishers Weekly

Praise for Did You Take the B from My _ook?:
"It's a winning bit of interactive silliness that offers insight into the way small changes can have big results where words are concerned."
—Publishers Weekly

"A perfect one to read out loud to the kids."
—Red Tricycle

Praise for the Books That Drive Kids CRAZY! Series:
"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)

From the Publisher

2017-03-06
A metafictive picture _ook with playful typography to _oot.The opening text directly addresses readers, listing some of the narrator's favorite things without ever visually depicting said narrator. In fact, there are no pictures at all in the first few double-page spreads, only text. The first page reads, in part: "I have favorite things. They are bats and beaches and bread and bushes and bulldozers." On the next page readers are invited to say "bubububub…bobobobob…brrrrrrrrr." The final statement indicates a chill in the air, and the narrator sneezes in the next spread with a swirling "Aaaaacchhhoooooo!!!!" across the pages. This instigates the titular premise: the sneeze apparently does away with all b's, and the text is written accordingly while accompanying pictures depict the b-free objects. "I love my _ed," reads the text next to a line drawing of a bed, for example. After several such spreads accompanied by pictures that cumulatively add the b-free things together in a silly scene of a _eetle, _utterfly, and a couple _ulls jumping on the _ed, the narrator implores readers to call for the letter b to "come _ack!" And back it comes for a celebratory ending. Throughout, bold, graphic typography provides cues for tone in reading aloud, while the simple digital illustrations add to ample metafictive humor. _ravo! (Picture book. 3-7)

Kirkus Reviews