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The Book with No Pictures
The Book with No Pictures | B.J. Novak
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A #1 New York Times bestseller, this innovative and wildly funny read-aloud by award-winning humorist/actor B.J. Novak will turn any reader into a comedian.You might think a book with no pictures seems boring and serious. Except . . . heres how books work. Everything written on the pagehasto be said by the person reading it aloud. Even if the words say . . .BLORK. Or BLUURF.Even if the words are a preposterous song about eating ants for breakfast, or just a list of astonishingly goofy sounds like BLAGGITY BLAGGITY and GLIBBITY GLOBBITY.Cleverly irreverent and irresistibly silly,The Book with No Picturesis one that kids will beg to hear again and again. (And parents will be happy to oblige.)
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IndoorDame

I‘m sad! I want my pictures to come back!

Darklunarose Ah, so it IS a litsy issue. I was wondering if it was just my end! 8mo
IndoorDame @Darklunarose it is a litsy issue, and I know they‘re working on it, I‘m just not patient 🙃😂 8mo
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Me too 😩 8mo
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Cuilin It‘s so sad 😞 8mo
JenReadsAlot Me too!! 8mo
swishandflick It's making me sad, too!! 8mo
BarbaraJean Me too!! They‘ve fixed it on the web version but not on the app yet. But like you, I‘m impatient 😁 8mo
Darklunarose @BarbaraJean with some luck it should be fixed soon. I‘m glad it‘s sorted on the web version! 8mo
Deblovestoread Me, too! 😭 8mo
ChaoticMissAdventures So sad!!! Beyond the people here the pictures are my favorite! 8mo
Chelleo From @TimSpalding If you're using the app, please visit the Onward Litsy group to tell if you're seeing images. If you're not a member of the group, tell me here.

https://www.litsy.com/web/post/2620018

https://www.facebook.com/groups/OnwardLitsy
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thegirlwiththelibrarybag I thought my internet was busted 🥹 hope all is resolved soon! 8mo
LiseWorks Can't see images 8mo
IndoorDame @LiseWorks same. I was sure it would be resolved when I woke up this morning. I can‘t remember a Litsy glitch that lasted this long before 😔 8mo
batsy Same! And yes, it's the longest I've known a glitch to occur here. 8mo
IndoorDame @ChaoticMissAdventures same! You don‘t realize how integral the pictures are to your experience until they‘re just gone! 8mo
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LapReader
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Pickpick

Wednesday night I had a free ballet class as one of my ballet teachers is opening her own studio. I walked there on account of the Little Free Library I knew was on the way. Score! This photo is from my bath as I perused my finds afterwards. It was a bloody hot night and I dripped sweat onto the sprung floor before I even left the barre.

IuliaC This sounds like a great night! 1y
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SarahBookInterrupted
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Check out Meredith‘s book review of BJ Novak‘s children‘s book on Book Interrupted‘s Manuscript Monday. https://www.bookinterrupted.com/post/manuscript-monday-the-book-with-no-pictures

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cwarnier
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Pickpick

This has always been on my TBR list, just didnt have a copy. I accidentally came across it on #libby and could not resist. I may even have to read it in class next week.
#litsyatoz @BookishMarginalia

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Heideschrampf
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Pickpick

Found this and couldn‘t resist! 😍

DinoMom My son and Iove this one! 3y
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Kayla_C
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The Book With No Pictures by B.J. Novak is a humorous RF book that has NO pictures. This book forces the reader to make silly sounds. I would use this book in my classroom as a RA because it would most definitely entertain your students.
ESOL strategy 14 simplify your speech by making it slower and redundant
Vary pace in reading this text. #UCFLAE3414SP20

DrSpalding Where‘s the link? The Office fans love this book for their children!😀 4y
Kayla_C https://youtu.be/EZwY5BeYcyo. UDL: 1.2 I believe fits well with this book. This link is B.J Novak doing a read a loud with this book with students and they seem to absolutely love it. Your ELL students not having to read this themselves and Mr. Novak models great reading skills that your ELL can grasp and enjoy themselves. 4y
DrSpalding Much better! 4y
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AshleyHoss820
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This book made me smile while I was reading it. How often do you get to shout out “boo boo butt”!? 😂 This is a book that understands the power of oral storytelling and forces you to read aloud. We gotta engage with our kids and pass on a love of words and stories.

Liz_M That looks amazing! 4y
AshleyHoss820 @Liz_M I realize it‘s not anything earth-shattering, but it was fun! And my kids laughed! So...it‘s a win! 😄😄😄 4y
cozypunk I ADORE THIS BOOK! 4y
AshleyHoss820 @dwRavenPuff I do too! It was so fun to read out loud and it proves that storytelling is about more than just pictures! (Although, wonderful illustrations are awesome too!😊) (edited) 4y
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Valink
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Highly entertained to see The Book with no Pictures right under the sign for “Picture Books”!

tracey38 🤔😆 4y
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carlenerubin
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Pickpick

The Book With No Pictures by B.J. Novak is a humorous RF book with NO pictures. This book forces the reader to make crazy sounds! Do not read if you do not want to make crazy sounds. I would use this book in my classroom as a RA because that is absolutely the only way to read this amazing text.

carlenerubin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZwY5BeYcyo

UDL: 1.2
The link I am attaching is a video of the author reading aloud his own story. This offers an alternative for auditory information.

ESOL: 14. Simplify your speech by making it slower and redundant
Vary pace in reading this text.

#UCFLAE3414SU19
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Stephanie5 I put this as one of my books too I love them so much. 5y
DrSpalding For those of you that enjoy The Office as my eldest son does, the allure of this book is even greater! This is a unique book that many students enjoy. 5y
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raqueldonna
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Mehso-so

RF/ RA
This book may not contain much "literary value" in the standard sence but it can be a fun read aloud, good example to model pitch, tone & pacing.
I like this book b/c it introduces kids to the idea that books without pictures can still be fun! Gasp!
A reading by the author himself: https://youtu.be/cREyQJO9EPs
UDL 2.5
ELL video reading or translation
#ucfsu19

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Bookwormjillk
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We took a break from chapter books tonight to return to an old favorite. As usual we could barely get through it because we were laughing so hard.

suvata One of the best kids books ever 5y
Bookwormjillk @suvata I agree. So funny. 5y
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sammisho
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More bookish Easter goodies...All the Boys for my preteen, Dogman for my 6 yo, and No Pictures for my one and only nephew.

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cwright
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The Book With No Pictures (NF, NYT Bestseller, Buzzfeed & Amazon Best Picture Book) by B.J. Novak — yes, Ryan from The Office — is a sort of anti-picture book that intentionally looks boring on the outside but is HILARIOUS as a RA because it is intended for an adult to make a fool of themselves in front of a child. #LAE3414sp19

cwright https://create.piktochart.com/output/37528494-knighted-rc This is a Piktochart I used for my seminar on the Responsive Classroom Model. While reading, I daydreamed of reading this between greeting and sharing of a morning meeting, either toward the beginning of school or the day of a big test, and then to have the sharing be that every student would make the funniest nonsense sound/sentence they could think of and have everyone repeat it. (edited) 5y
cwright ESOL 18, 22 UDL 7.1, 7.3, 8.3, 4.1 5y
readingjedi My daughter's EYFS teacher read this to the class recently. It was video'd for the class portal & it was just the most glorious thing to watch! Everyone was having so much fun! 5y
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Olsonashley19 Thanks for sharing! I liked hearing about the responsive model and it's nice to see that you're applying this to other aspects of your learning. Great example! 5y
caldwellalex95 @cwright OMG Charlie, as soon as you mentioned Ryan from the Office, I immediately knew that I have to read this book! The PiktoChart is such a great resource and I appreciate you linking it for the rest of us to see! Thank you for your wonderful post about this book; I am so happy I stumbled across it, because now I have a new book I have to search for! 5y
DrSpalding Fans of the Office love this book! Wonderful peer feedback. 5y
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pocketmermaid
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A friend showed me this Yelp review of a bookstore and I got such a kick out of it that I had to share it with Litsy. Indeed, who reads books?? 🤣

candority Yikes! I feel the need to fill Vaughn L‘s home with books so they can at least ‘appear smart‘ 😂 (edited) 5y
Hooked_on_books Vaughn L is an idiot 🙄 5y
CampbellTaraL Haha, wow. 5y
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MotionChickness
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“THAT SOUNDS BOOOOORING”
*reads book*
“READ IT AGAIN!”

Solid favorite for 4+ aged readers! My students loved it when I read it, and now my daughter can‘t get enough of it (and neither can I, it‘s hilarious!)

Austink1 This is my daughter‘s favorite book! 5y
Readingismyescape This book is great. It‘s hugely popular in our elementary library. 5y
annahenke I gave this book to my nephew and he absolutely loved it! His favorite! 5y
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kristincatastrophic I forgot about this book! I remember now I was going to get it for my nephews but was short on funds then and completely forgot about it. I have some extra money now, thank you for reminding me! 5y
MotionChickness @kristincatastrophic I hope he enjoys it!!! ♥️ 5y
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MotionChickness
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A little book haul for myself, and a little for the mini me 🤗♥️

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Bookwormjillk
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My daughter came up the brilliant idea to have books and brunch yesterday ❤️

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Chrissyreadit
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Finally at Powell‘s! My daughter reading to my nephew❤️❤️❤️

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Sarahreadstoomuch
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Picked out a few favorites to read with my 3rd grader‘s classroom on Friday as part of Children‘s Book Week! Any other suggestions?

Deborah42 Dragons Love Tacos; The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore; Skippyjon Jones; Louise, Adventures of a Chicken; Miss Brooks Loves Books 6y
Sarahreadstoomuch Thank you @Deborah42 !! It‘s been awhile since I‘ve read some of those - but Morris Lessmore is a great one!! 6y
Deborah42 I‘ve shared Morris Lessmore with lots of students. It helped me explain to young readers how important stories are. Don‘t forget the short film. ❤️ 6y
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Cruzdia1
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Pickpick

This is fiction and is a New York Times Best Seller. It can be used in class as a RA, SR, DR, CR or PR. #UCFLAE3414SP18
This is a very unique book and had never seen anything like it. It is exactly what it sounds like! This book encourages the reader to get silly with their audience and there‘s nothing students love more than hearing their teacher make all kinds of silly noises! Every classroom should have a copy of this book!

AndreaG I love this idea...forcing kids to use their creativity to make things interesting. Also, I love that BJ Novak wrote it. He was a writer on one of my favorite shows: The Office 6y
Cruzdia1 A UDL strategy that pairs well with this book is 1.3: Offer alternatives for visual information. This strategy is perfect because this book does not have any illustrations and therefore in order to make the text interesting and fun for students the teacher must read it in an animated way and essentially present the information in a different way! 6y
Cruzdia1 ESOL Strategies that pair well with this book are: 25 and 14. By acting out many of the things in this story allows second language learners to follow along easily because of the heavy use of gestures. 6y
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Cruzdia1 The teaching resource I‘ve attached for this book is a website full of content specific activities with this book. http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/library/books/the-book-with-no-pictures 6y
AshleyC I need to check this book out! Have heard a lot of good things about it, along with the activities it would be a great read. 6y
GraceNeg I will have to read this book ! It sounds really interesting. 6y
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BrynnFlynn
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One of baby's first books, with love from the wonderful @inwhichHeikereadsharder

RaimeyGallant Welcome to Litsy! #LitsyWelcomeWagon And here's a compilation of Litsy tips that some of us put together:
http://litsy.com/p/aDJja2lMZFFY
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libraerian
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Pickpick

When your friend has a baby and you buy that baby a regular picture book along with board books, you know the picture book is a good one. Such a fun read-aloud for all ages! #storytimefavorite #picturebook

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Brittanyradzak
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The book with no pictures is a F RA book and New York Times Bestseller, written by B.J. Novak. This explains how a book with no pictures can be no fun at all, until you read on. It continues with silly comments like “boo boo butt” that the reader HAS to say because thats the rule of a book! I would use UDL guideline 7.1 because this book can be a fun way for students to get creative. I would use ESOL strategy 16 to integrate their creativity.

Brittanyradzak http://readingtokids.org/Books/BookView.php?pag=4&bookID=00001280&pview=yes this website gives you information about the book and activities you can do with the book! I love the idea of the children making their own book with whatever they want the reader to say! #ucflae3414f17 (edited) 6y
AJones What a great book! 💖I love the idea of students creating their own story.💡Thanks for sharing, and I just added this book to my reading list. 6y
AndreaC I loved BJ Novak in The Office, I remember hearing about this book, I‘ll have to check it out! 6y
alyssahp I would love to read this book, it seems great! Having students create their own story is an awesome idea. Nice post! 6y
DrSpalding Your book boost was well received. So many enjoy The Office! Kids enjoy this fun read aloud. 6y
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UnabridgedTomes
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Pickpick

We read a lot of children's books at my house, but this one is the funniest we've seen in a while.

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TheBookHippie
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Monday's story time read at Eat up and meet up.

Suzze When I was doing storytime at Barnes & Noble we were required to read this. My storytime kids were about 2 - 4 years old and they didn't seem to "get it". 7y
saresmoore The whole family has a running joke from this book. One person starts going "Eeeeeeeeee", then we all blurt out "Badoongey-face!" I don't know if I spelled the onomatopoeias correctly. Basically, we love this book. 7y
TheBookHippie @saresmoore we laugh everytime !! 7y
TheBookHippie @Suzze 8-12 seem to like it the best :) we read it to 2-18 7y
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tfundora
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Pickpick

On of my personal favorite actors wrote this RF
book. It's a fun and engaging book that makes you the reader say and react different ways to the person you are reading it to. Very hilarious book! Here is a video of Author/Actor BJ Novak reading to a elementary school class
https://youtu.be/cREyQJO9EPs
#UCFLAE3414su17

DrSpalding He's an actor and PERFORMS so well with kids! Great choice! You spent your time at Barnes and Noble wisely @tfundora 7y
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Lmstraubie
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So, GASP!!! I am without a book! Instead I'm getting a pedicure & spending time catching up on Litsy. 😁

WanderingBookaneer 😱😱😱 7y
Cinfhen Close enough💞enjoy the quiet time 7y
Lmstraubie @Cinfhen Thank you ☺️ 7y
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KirstieE
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Reading runs in the family !
My niece gets so excited when we read to her #bookworm

mangokittty Aww she looks so happy to be reading. I love seeing young ones obsessed with the magic of books. 7y
KirstieE @mangokittty she loves reading ! It's so cute 7y
TobeyTheScavengerMonk B. J. Novak's book of short stories for adults is hilarious. 7y
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Lauren_reading
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We read this today and (obviously) my Kinders loved it. They even decided to write their own! #teachersoflitsy

DebinHawaii Cute! 😆❤️ 7y
Jaimelire Adorable 7y
Sace Precious! 7y
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bookhoarder513
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She recieved this as a birthday gift a couple of years ago. She loves reading it to me and little brother before bed 😍 I just love hearing her read.

Rachael_reads That's a great book!! 7y
TrishB I brought this for a friends little boy! He loves it too 👍 7y
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johnson_kl
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When I worked in a Kindergarten class I read this book to the kids at least once a week. Each time it was like they were hearing it for the first time; absolutely loved it! Such a funny and whimsical book!

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Megan_Roberts
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So, this is 50! With the hundreds of pages in reading for graduate school plus endless children's books, I thought my favorite could count as my 50th book this year. This is such a fun, silly book. My kids' favorite line was "boo boo butt".

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ashsbookmarks
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For some reason I couldn't login to Litsy yesterday 😞 I almost lost it 😖 if you follow me on Instagram this was the post from yesterday ⤵️
I've been MIA this past weekend since it was my daughters birthday. But I'm back!! She got some books for her birthday and I used my cool stamp that I got for my birthday last month. I instantly fell in love 😍
#books #book #stamp #mylibrary

Readingrobin Such a clever and fun book to read aloud! 7y
12parsecs Suck a cute stamp 🤗🤗 7y
12parsecs Such* 😞 oops 7y
RadicalReader @ashsbookmarks definitely happens frequently when you can't enjoy what you have come to feel is a part of your daily life 7y
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the.bookish.valkyrie
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I love children's books! This amazing book with a #TextOnlyCover continues the theme, as the title suggests, beginning to end. This fantastic book absolutely delighted me!

#Booktober

AbstractMonica Love it too 7y
Chelsey It's great isn't it? 7y
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Fiaryeyes
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#textonlycover. #booktober. A Great Read Aloud. BLORK.

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Lauren_reading
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I love reading this one to my Kinders! Such a fun book! And a #textonlycovers as well as text only pages 😀 #booktober

BeththeBookDragon We love this book at my house! 7y
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Jenwillread
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A little before school reading session for my son. This books makes kids 😂

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susanw
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So, my cousin just had a baby, and what does every baby need? Dumb question, books!!

LeahBergen Yep, I've started a few baby's libraries 😂 7y
britt_brooke Great choices! 🙌🏻 The Baby Lit Frankenstein is a current favorite in my house. 7y
Reagan Excellent choices. Sandra Boynton has some fantastic books and The Book With No Pictures is very popular in our house. 7y
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Readingismyescape Sandra Boynton's books are great. They were some of my favorites when my kids were little. Oh and theirs too. ❤️📚 7y
Cortg I just bought my new nephew a stack of board books. I still need to get him a book bag for his library trips! 7y
Theresa It's never to early to develop the love of reading!! 7y
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DrexEdit

Went to a baby shower today where the "card" with your gift was to be a book. Feels good getting a young person's library off to a good start!

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AmyS
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A little late for #day20 of the #augustphotochallenge so several of my #funnybooks have already been posted. Good choices, everyone! This is my students' favorite book, particularly my younger (5-7) students (would work for even younger kids, too). In a read-aloud, the reader has to read every word on the page out loud. Hilarity ensues. I have read this book to my K-2 classes soooo many times and they howl with laughter each and every time.

AmyS And my book is still packed in a box in my classroom so I stole this picture from the Internet. 8y
annahenke I gave this to my nephew and he absolutely loves it! His favorite book. 😊 8y
ReadingEnvy Have you ever seen the video of the author reading it to a big group of students? They had to take a break to control the mayhem. Sooooo funny. 8y
readingonarainyday This one is my favorite too! Love it! 8y
Louise Following @ReadingEnvy's tip, I found this video. It's so cute to see the kids go crazy over the funny words! https://youtu.be/SiiS2NDkfI4 8y
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giveitupforlentmom

This book is always a delight for me to read. When I let others read it outloud it's the worst bc I want the laughs! This book is my test to my 8th graders to see if when I read it they still laugh, when they give me blank stares they are going to hell, and I cry. Just kidding but I totally tell them they suck if they don't laugh!

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OSChamberlain I love the BJ book. I flipped through it at target. He's so funny. 8y
AmyS My students love that BJ Novak book. They ask me to read it all the time. 8y
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My kids love this book. They think it's the height of silliness and they have memorized every word. It does get a little annoying to read (or perhaps perform is more apt) after the fiftieth time but it's worth it for the peals of laughter that follow "Ba-dooongy-face" and admitting that your "only friend in the whole wide world is a hippo named Boo Boo Butt." #augustofpages #minimalistbookcover @TheSpinecrackersBookClub

TheSpinecrackersBookClub Will need to check this one out. 8y
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AliBG
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My kids loved it so much that the week it came out I bought copies for all my nieces and nephews...read alouds & hilarity ensued. Definitely qualifies for today's #augustphotochallenge - the #minimalisticcovers

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