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Description
It's bedtime for the little red chicken, and Papa starts reading her a story, but she can't help herself. As soon as the story gets going, out jumps the little red chicken, right into the story, saving characters from danger and ending the story early.
Quick Summary
If you've got a little one who can't resist jumping into a story or interrupting at bedtime, this one is going to feel painfully familiar in the best way. Papa chicken is just trying to read some fairy tales a little Red Riding Hood, a Hansel and Gretel scene when his daughter suddenly leaps off the page to save the characters from danger, completely derailing each tale before it can even get going. The humor lands perfectly for kids because it's exactly what they do, and the illustrations are genius the chicken is drawn in a warm, sketchy cartoon style while the stories Papa reads are in elegant, classic book art, so the contrast makes every interruption feel even funnier. It's a Caldecott Honor winner, and you can really see why the page turns are perfectly timed for dramatic effect, and the ending (where Papa finally gets his own story) is sweet without being preachy. This works beautifully as a read-aloud for ages 3 to 6, and newly independent readers at a grade 2 level will get a kick out of tackling it solo. Fans of silly, high-energy books where kids outsmart the adults will probably also love "The Book With No Pictures" for similar reasons.