Pic Pick! It's a Book! About a Book?
Today's pic pick is a book about being in a book? A book?
It's a book? Wait, I am confused and amused!
Yes, you read right, today's pic pick includes books about books, with the words book in the title.
It's a Book
By Lane Smith
Recommended for ages 8-99
Tambien en español
It's easy to consider our current generation of children as technology natives.
Surrounded by smartphones, iPads, Nooks, tablets, Kindles, and video games we might wonder, "Do our kids know books?"
Silly, of course they do! Lane Smith brings us It's a Book, a story of a monkey and a donkey who feud over what a book really is.
What is its functionality? Does it Tweet? Does it blog?
We've seen a couple of more books about being in a book, reminding us of their value (no, I am not being biased because I love the library. OK, maybe a little).
Here are some below!
We Are in A Book!
By Mo Willems
Book!
By Kristine O'Connell George
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