Wreck This Picture Book: How to Make a Book Come to Life by Keri Smith - ADVISABLE

Wreck This Picture Book: How to Make a Book Come to Life by Keri Smith. INTERACTIVE PICTURE BOOK. Dial (Penguin), 2020. $18. 9780593111024 

BUYING ADVISORY: Pre-K, EL (K-3) – ADVISABLE 

AUDIENCE APPEAL: HIGH 

Books are so bored just sitting around waiting for people to read them. Make the book’s day by interacting with it in all kinds of fun ways. 

You’ll have to decide how comfortable you are with the one page in the book that encourages readers to bend its corners and roll it up. Other than that, the book is similar to Herve Tullet’s color books in its interactions. The inside of the cover has instructions for make cork dolls like in the illustrations. My librarian heart wishes the instructions had been backmatter, but a clever librarian can roll with it. 

Cindy, Library Teacher, MLS