I Am Book
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- $10.99
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- $10.99
Publisher Description
A clever, amusingly meta picture book with a wholesome message that teaches kids to love themselves just the way they are.
Meet "Book"—a plain old book with a dusty yellow jacket and torn pages. When Book’s library closes, it moves to a new one in a neighboring town, expecting a friendly welcome. But the kids there don’t care for books with dusty jackets and torn pages! So, Book hatches a plan to change its jacket and rewrites its pages to fit in with the new crowd. After several hilarious failures to do so, Book finally learns to accept itself just the way it always was—spelling misteaks and all.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Narrated in rigorous rhyme by a jaunty yellow tome, Cull's self-referential work explores confidence and fitting in at a new school. At its previous elementary, the library book was "cooler than cool," but things get off to a rough start at New School Elementary. There, Rugrats-reminiscent patrons, portrayed with various skin tones, mock the volume: "Pffft, I Am Book? That's so cringe," says one. "More like I Am Trash," retorts another, who tears a page from the volume. Hoping to change its reception, the beleaguered protagonist attempts a makeover that embraces arrayed genres, but when nothing feels right, the subject realizes that "not everyone will like me, no matter what they see./ As long as I'm still being the best book I can be." A jokey tone weaves throughout Cull's scenes, which lean on potty humor and puns, but the levity doesn't quite balance the cruelty that the protagonist endures en route to s(h)elf-actualization. Ages 5–8.
