5 stars
Amazing art
Ahah! Love this book. The plot twist at the end is sweet. I love that he keeps saying that the book is not for "you" and doesn't have this and that, but by saying it, it has it all: aliens, holiday days, zombies, animals doing silly things, more animals, huge slimy monsters, and gross, silly humor. The artwork is fantastic. For kids who love monsters and gross humor.
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The end is a great plot twist.
From the publisher
CBC Hot off The Press August 2024 Title
With dynamic illustrations by Susanna Covelli that hilariously contradict the story, This Book Is Not for You is told hilariously by Howard Pearlstein in the voice of an oblivious narrator who explains why this book is not for you
Are you a kid?
Are you reading this book?
If so, drop it like a hot potato.
Seriously, skipper.
This book is not for you.
Packed with everything a kid could never want—nothing funny, gross, cool, cute, or silly—this picture book is really not for you. There definitely aren’t any monsters or ninjas, and you can forget about aliens. You probably won’t even like this story. But you’re going to read it anyway, aren’t you?
The narrator, a curmudgeonly man with an impressive mustache, is delightfully unaware of the funny, gross, cool, cute, and silly things happening around him and his anxious dog (who is very aware). Whenever the narrator speaks, monsters, aliens, and all the things that a kid would like jump off the page. So if this book is not for you, who is it for? (The answer is absolutely not at the end.)
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