PICTURE BOOKS
Stanton, Beck , Stanton, Matt

This Book Is Red

(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.

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