I love books (obviously), so I was thrilled when today's picture book arrived in the mail. It is a book everyone should read. It will confirm what book lovers already know, and it might encourage people who don't care for books to reconsider their opinion.
If I were a book
If I were a book
Jose Jorge Letria
Illustrated by Andre Letria
Picture Book
For ages 5 and up
Chronicle Books, 2014, 978-1-4521-2144-4
A lot of people like to imagine what it would be like to
be someone or something else. What would it be like to be a much loved pet cat
who gets to sleep all day long? What would it be like to be a celebrity who has
thousands of fans? Imagine now what it might be like to a book, a book that has
been left on a park bench all alone. Perhaps you would “ask someone in the
street to take me home,” and then you would be that person’s best friend.
What would you
were like if were a book? You could be “full of useful knowledge,” or capture
your reader’s attention with your “captivating tales.” You would not want to
know how your story ends and not be in a hurry to get to those very final of
words: “The End.” You could “help someone soar” or “sweep away ignorance.”
There would be so much you could do if you were a book, and so many wonderful
things you could share with your readers.
This powerfully
simple picture book will help readers to see that books are so much more than
paper pages and a cover. They are tools for learning, they make our world
bigger, and they offer us hours of entertainment with grand adventures, poetry,
and more.
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