This is NOT a Book! by Kellie Byrnes and Aska
In this brightly illustrated book the main character is convinced they're not in a book How can they be when they are real? After all, if this were a book, there'd be pages to turn. Oops! We've turned the page. But that's not proof this is a book.
Even if there are pages to turn, there would be things happening and there would be a focus and other characters, a distinct time period and exciting settings, action to be involved in, problems to solve. Yet, to him, there is nothing happening, despite what is being portrayed in the illustrations.
it is one of four books from this publisher - the others are The Art of Words, The Leaky Story, and My Storee - that focus on metafiction, helping young readers become young writers. Told by the main character (who is deliberately not identified by gender) in a monologue, the text in this story says one thing whilst in the illustrations the opposite is happening, showing that all the elements the character says should be in a book - main and subsidiary characters, settings, plots, problems, resolutions and so forth - are actually there.
This is a novel way to help children turn their ideas into written stories to share with others and teachers' notes are available.
Themes: Imagination, Story telling, Books and reading.
Barbara Braxton
