Monday, September 20, 2021

The Couch Potato by Jory John and Pete Oswald - ESSENTIAL

The Couch Potato (The Bad Seed #4)
by Jory John and Pete Oswald.
PICTURE BOOK Harper Collins, 2020. $19. 9780062954534 

BUYING ADVISORY: EL (K-3) - ESSENTIAL 

AUDIENCE APPEAL: HIGH 

Couch Potato stays on the couch - all the time, watching screens, even virtually hanging with friends, until one day - plugging in a new device, BOOM - the power goes out. After a day spent outside without power, Couch Potato re-evaluates his lifestyle. 

I loved Couch Potato's descriptions of outside - everything relative to technology "It looked like a desktop background", I also loved that the story was about balance, rather than suggesting that technology is a bad thing. I have loved this series - the illustrations and text are amusing - such fun.

Lisa Librarian

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