This Book Is Red (Books That Drive Kids Crazy! #3)
by Beck Stanton (Author)
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.
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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.)
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JUV051000 - Juvenile Fiction | Imagination & Play
JUV009020 - Juvenile Fiction | Concepts | Colors
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