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The Incredible Book Eating Boy

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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.

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.

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!