This is a book like no other book. When you open this book you will meet its narrator which in fact is a book. This book is a little cranky because of many reasons which it will explain, but it really wants YOU the reader to understand what it is LIKE to be a book.

It begins to tell the story of The Book That No One Wanted To Read. This particular book didn’t have a snazzy cover. It didn’t give off the lovely new books smell we know and love, and the insides? Who knows. No one had ever opened it to find out.

And now the real story begins as this narrator (a book), leads you into a library. This involves your imagination, words, common phrases that are in books that can often mean something completely different, and the discovery of a special book.

This book does not want to be read. No way, no sir! But you are intrigued as it tells you its story.

Love books, chuckling through the pages or even laughing out loud? The Book That No One Wanted To Read is a book for you. The narrator of this book is a Book, and what it has to tell you will make you look at and appreciate books in a whole new way.

It is packed with hilarious illustrations portraying what this book and a reader are discussing within this book, but it’s not all laughs and gags and clever puns and pokes at language. There are some thought provoking themes among these pages.

Open up this book to learn more about the life of a book, how it feels to be left on a shelf, or have its pages dog eared which you will hopefully never, ever, ever do again!

Quirky & Clever.

Author – Richard Ayoade

Illustrator – Tor Freeman

Age – 7+

(2023, Walker Books, Books, Reading, Libraries, Library, Reader, Authors, Imagination, Funny, Humour, Language, Life Lessons)