The Horn Book Guide

PICTURE BOOKS

Stanton, Beck , Stanton, Matt

This Book Is Red

40 pp. | Little | April, 2018 | Trade ISBN 978-0-316-43449-2 $14.99 | Ebook ISBN 978-0-316-43448-5

(3) K-3 Books That Drive Kids Crazy! series. In another meta offering from the Stantons (This Is a Ball etc.), an unseen narrator tries to convince readers not only that this book is red (it's not), but that its featured cartoonish animals and objects are colors they're not ("Roses are red. So Rose the penguin is red"). The narrator's leaps of (il)logic and defensiveness ("Are you calling me a liar? Ouch") are unremittingly funny.

Reviewer: Nell Beram