This Book Is Red (Books That Drive Kids Crazy! #3)

by Beck Stanton (Author)

This Book Is Red (Books That Drive Kids Crazy! #3)

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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Kirkus

A rollicking read for children and adults alike.

ALA/Booklist

A storytime winner, with bright colors and big, simple cartoon illustrations that are suitable for sharing with groups large or small, as well as single listeners.

Publishers Weekly

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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Beck Stanton
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.
Classification
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780316434492
Lexile Measure
-
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Publication date
April 10, 2018
Series
Books That Drive Kids Crazy!
BISAC categories
JUV019000 - Juvenile Fiction | Humorous Stories
JUV051000 - Juvenile Fiction | Imagination & Play
JUV009020 - Juvenile Fiction | Concepts | Colors
Library of Congress categories
Humorous stories
Color
Red

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