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The Book No One Wants to Read

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The Book No One Wants to Read is a highly visual full-color chapter book that uses humor, interactivity, and meta-storytelling to help even the most reluctant reader breeze through reading time, feel successful at reading, and even laugh! You'll read a book . . . without really reading!

A lonely book makes a deal with its reader: "You keep turning my pages, and I'll make it FUN!"

If you think reading is boring, then you can pretend to read this book! All you have to do is sit here and turn the pages. Everyone will think you're reading. Are you ready? Let's get started...

The ability to read by third grade is critical to a child's success in school and beyond. But learning to read can be frustrating. The Book No One Wants to Read by Beth Bacon validates the experience of reluctant readers and rewards them with laughter.

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      May 10, 2021
      Originally self-published in 2017, this companion to I Hate Reading features a range of colorful, interactive content guided by a fourth-wall-breaking narrator. Bacon takes on the fast-talking voice of the book itself: “If you think reading is boring, try sitting around all day facing the wall, cover closed, doing a whole lot of nothing,” the book complains. On the next page, an image of a light bulb offers, “Hey,/ I might/ have an idea/ that helps us/ both,” inviting emerging readers in on a ruse: pretending to read. The book proceeds to cajole readers to turn (and sometimes shake, scratch, or smack) pages, participate in multipage jokes, and peer at optical illusions. Bold graphic design and bright monochrome backgrounds ensure that the book holds plenty of visual appeal. While encouraging page-turning is prioritized over a cohesive narrative, this tome is well designed to engage reluctant young readers. Ages 6–10.

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  • OverDrive Read

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  • English

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