- Hardcover: 32 pages
- Publisher: Harpercollins; 1 edition (Sep 7 2006)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0007182279
- ISBN-13: 978-0007182275
- Product Dimensions: 28.2 x 22.4 x 1.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 399 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #154,306 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From School Library Journal
Starred Review. PreSchool-Grade 3—Henry loves books. In fact, he literally devours them. And the more he eats, the smarter he gets. When he starts eating too many too fast, he can no longer digest them, and their contents get all mixed up. The simple cartoon illustrations twinkle with humor and feeling. Done in paint and pencil on smart backdrops—pages from old books—the pictures set the stage for the quirky story. When forced to give up eating his favorite volumes, Henry eventually learns to enjoy reading them. However, an actual bite taken out of the back cover suggests he still succumbs to the occasional indulgence. This well-done package will charm its audience. The snappy text works well for reading aloud, but older children will enjoy exploring the subtle details hidden in the illustrations and backgrounds.—Julie Roach, Cambridge Public Library, MA
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.
From Booklist
Henry loves books--eating them, that is. The more books he eats, the smarter he becomes, prompting him to devour them at an alarming rate. Henry imagines that if he keeps eating at his current pace, he could eventually become the smartest person on earth. Unfortunately, he starts to get sick from eating so many books, and everything he has learned becomes all jumbled up. Eventually Henry gives up eating books and finds that it can also be satisfying to read them. The text is straightforward and minimal, but Jeffers' illustrations ("created with paint, pencil and Letraset on pages from old books that librarians were getting rid of, the artist found, or people were throwing out") cleverly convey why Henry might find books so enticing. The cover is a pleasing shade of chocolate, and many of the pages look good enough to eat, with print, lines, and texture from the recycled book pages cropping up in unlikely places (see the front cover of this issue). Children will enjoy sinking their teeth into these detail-rich, delectable pictures. Randall Enos
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
A Wonderful Book!,
By Reading in Winter (Edmonton, AB CANADA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Incredible Book Eating Boy (Paperback)
This was a great book. Yes, it was a small children's book, a picture book, if you will, but it was just wonderful to read. The story, by Oliver Jeffers, is about a boy who starts to eat books. First he starts with just a word, then moves on to sentences, and, ultimately, entire books. The books make him smarter, but they give him a bad tummy ache.The wonderful thing about this book is the illustrations. Most of the pages are structured to look like various pages in a book'that's not to say the obvious, it is a book: I know that. For example, the first page reads like the side-angle of a finance book, or other pages have text lightly in the background of another book. There is even lined paper and graph paper on various pages'each page being quite unique. Of course, even the illustrations of the boy with his books are quite nice'I especially enjoyed a picture of the boy at the dinner table, taking a slice out of his book for a mouthful. Jeffers's use of space is wonderful. I liked how he didn't clutter up the pages with too much going on, but instead gave the reader just enough. Another great thing about the book is how the author gives us all reasons to read books through the boy eating the books: they make us smarter, can help us do crossword puzzles better, but sometimes we read books so fast that our brains get jumbled up and we can't remember what we've read. I liken myself to that'sometimes I read book after book after book without a break and get fuzzy. I totally understood what he was going through. The Incredible Book-Eating Boy is a great story to let everyone know the benefits of reading'and that sometimes, an accident (like accidentally eating your book instead of your popsicle) can lead you to do something you never thought possible.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Very Cool Book,
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This review is from: The Incredible Book-Eating Boy (Hardcover)
We LOVE this story! My daughter can't get enough of it. It's so silly. We think it's cook that there is a "real" bite taken out of the back of the book. What a creative author.
5.0 out of 5 stars
A deliciously edible story & illustrations!,
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This review is from: Incredible Book Eating Boy (Hardcover)
This tactile story is my new favourite...everything from the little guy's expressions to the illustrations actually being done on BOOKS! If you look carefully at the illustrations you'll notice there are book spines & pages being painted across... it's a deliciously edible story, encouraging children to read books to learn cool things...not eat them!
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