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Open This Little Book - Oh, this I'm going to buy!

Open This Little Book - Jesse Klausmeier, Suzy Lee

I need to apologize beforehand, as this is not a book that can be explained without spoilers and my one issue with this book also makes it necessary to use spoilers.

 

I love this book! What a fun little read and very meta about the act of reading. There are actually multiple books of different colors to be started in this book; we open the Little Red Book, where a Ladybug opens a Little Green Book etc. Each of these books are inside the next until we reach the smallest book called the Little Rainbow Book. However, it is too small for the giant to open, so her friends read the story to her...just as you are probably doing with this book. Are you the giant? [Photo from this webpage.]

 

I liked how it ends with each book closed and the scene of all our friends plus additional animals reading more books! What a great way to promote additional reading.

 

There is one issue I have with this book though. This is not a book for young children to be handling with the small pages contained within each other and very easy to tear. While very nice to read to children, I'd be wary of young children and careless ones using this.

 

Still, a very cute read and one I would have enjoyed reading when a child, as I did today.