Book! Book! Book!

By: Deborah Bruss

This book was very clever and I enjoyed it. It makes a clever play-on-words, as the hen goes into the library and the librarian thinks she is saying “Book! Book!” when the hen is clucking. Also, at the end, the librarian thinks that frog is saying “Read it, read it!” I thought that was very funny. When I was younger I loved books like this; books that played with words or made jokes like that that I could understand and feel like I was included in a more adult world because I understood something like that. It reminded me of a book about a boy who wishes for a sandwich, and instead gets a “sand witch.” I always felt smart or clever for understanding the joke.