The Bored Book - Softcover

Slater, David Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1772290181 ISBN 13: 9781772290189

Publisher: Simply Read Books, 2017

Synopsis

Now available in paperback! A brother and sister are bored and irritated visiting their grandfather. There's no TV, no video games or computers - only books! Sent by their grandfather into the attic, they discover a dusty volume that is unlike all the others. When they open it, it expands into a giant map. As the map grows larger and larger, filling the attic, the children fall into adventures that take them all over the world, face to face with sharks, pirates, knights, even an abominable snowman. Suddenly their visit is anything but boring! The Bored Book uses stunning illustrations, with no text, to remind youngsters of the unique adventures to be found in books. The hardcover edition of The Bored Book was nominated for the 2011 Sakura Medal.

About this title

About the Author:

David Michael Slater teaches middle school in Portland, Oregon, where he lives with his wife and son. David has written many award-winning books, including Cheese Louise!, The Ring Bear, and Ned Loses His Head. David is also the author of the teen series, Sacred Books, and Selfless, a novel for adults.

Doug Keith began his professional career as a commercial artist in New York City, eventually relocating to Seattle, WA where he started his own art studio in 1983. Since then he has illustrated over forty picture books, designed and illustrated a number of alphabets, sculpted characters for garden statuary and received numerous fine art commissions. Doug often contracts with Seattle’s EMP Museum where he uses his creative skills to enhance their unique exhibits.

From School Library Journal:

Grade 1–4—It's difficult to determine the audience for this wordless picture book, which is a watered-down version of Todd Strasser's The Pagemaster (Scholastic, 1994). Opening black-and-white sketches show a brother and sister fighting while a grandfatherly man is trying to read in a room lined with bookshelves. Tired of their squabbling, he pulls aside a bookcase to reveal a hidden staircase. Climbing it, the children find themselves in an attic full of cobweb-covered tomes and pick up The Bored Book. As they open it, color floods from the pages, lighting up their astonished faces. The pages fold out to a huge mural that takes up the entire room and depicts many unrelated scenes. The siblings get sucked into one picture and find themselves on an icy slope facing what may be the Abominable Snowman, and in another, they confront pirates. After many adventures, they return to the old man in the dusty attic (now drawn in full color) and show him the mysterious volume. He calmly shows them shelves of titles such as Treasure Island and Sinbad. The children choose a book and are seen happily reading from it together. Keith's illustrations are too frightening for young audiences, but children who are old enough to read Treasure Island will not be engaged by a series of drawings about terrified kids running away from what the book flap calls "the adventure of a lifetime."—Martha Simpson, Stratford Library Association, CT END

About this edition

• Publisher: Simply Read Books
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1772290181
• ISBN 13: 9781772290189
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Keith Doug