The Book That Did Not Want to Be Read
David Sundin
Simon & Schuster
Fiction, CH Humor/Picture Book
Themes: Books, Cross-Genre, Weirdness
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Description
Once upon a time, a parent started reading a bedtime story to their child... but the book did not want to be read, resorting to all sorts of tricks - shrinking letters, inventing words, and more - to get them to give up.
Review
Another quick read during a lull at work, this is exactly what the title and description claim. Fonts shrink to microscopic size then grow larger than the page, all the A's turn to O's, the book grows "wings" to try to fly out of the parent's grasp, text flows in odd directions and invents nonsense words, and other "tricks" make for a lively, interactive reading experience. Fun for what it is.