85. No Buddy Like a Book

No Buddy Like a Book. Allan Wolf. Illustrated by Brianne Farley. 2021. [February] 32 pages. [Source: Library]

First sentence: We learn important stuff from books. We learn to speak and think. We learn why icebergs stay afloat...and why Titanics sink.

Premise/plot: Another case of what you see is what you get. This is a picture book (in poetic form) about books. From cover to cover this book has one job and only one job: to celebrate how reading engages one's imagination.

My thoughts: This rhyming picture book celebrates the act of reading taking time to highlight how awesome, wonderful, spectacular it is to engage one's imagination by reading. Books fuel the imagination. Imagination fuels books. Much love to be spread.

I loved the theme--obviously. I liked the poem well enough. If rhyming picture books about books are your thing, then this one is definitely for you.

There are dozens of picture books celebrating books, reading, the imagination, curiosity, etc. I happen to like some of the other books a bit more than this one. But this one is solid enough. 

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