This book will not be fun

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Title:

This book will not be fun

Author:

Dunlap, Cirocco, 1985- author.

Tallec, Olivier, illustrator.

Summary:

A book is no place for tomfoolery, and this mouse assures us that his book is to be no exception. Just please ignore that Word-Eating Flying Whale, and -- oh, no, the lights have gone out. Wait, what is THAT?! Nothing to fear. Everything is under control...

Edition:

First edition.

Physical Description:

24 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 25 x 29 cm

Genre:

Picture books.

Subject Term:

Books -- Juvenile fiction.

Dance parties -- Juvenile fiction.

Animals, Mythical -- Juvenile fiction.

Imagination -- Juvenile fiction.

Imaginary creatures -- Juvenile fiction.

Mice -- Juvenile fiction.

Author(s):

Tallec, Olivier,

Publisher:

Random House,

Publication Date:

2017

ISBN:

9780399550614

9780399550621

Publication Information:

New York : Random House, [2017]

Call Number:

P DUNLAP

Holds: Copies:

Available:*

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Summary

*A 2018 Children's and Teen Choice Book Award Finalist!

A mouse who acts as a careful custodian of his book tries to guarantee his reader some peace and order in spite of escalating chaos. For fans of The Book With No Pictures and This Book Just Ate My Dog!

A book is no place for tomfoolery, and this mouse assures us that his book is to be no exception. Just please ignore that Word-Eating Flying Whale, and-oh, no, the lights have gone out. Wait, what is THAT?! Nothing to fear. Everything is under control. . . .

Readers will delight as this charming yet uptight mouse is challenged and subverted by gloriously imaginative creatures that are like nothing you've ever seen. Will our little mouse succumb to the attractiveness of their overwhelming exuberance?

Newcomer Cirocco Dunlap delivers an on-point debut picture-book text that dances outside the boundaries of its pages. Olivier Tallec breathes extra lunacy into this nutty little world with his absurdist palette and amusing forms.

Author Notes

CIROCCO DUNLAP has written for the New Yorker and McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, as well as television's Man Seeking Woman and Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. You can find her at ciroccodunlap.com and follow her on Twitter and Instagram at @ciroccotweets. This is her first picture book.

OLIVIER TALLEC is an illustrator based in Paris. Following his graduation from the cole Superieure d'Arts Graphiques, he worked in advertising as a graphic designer. He has subsequently devoted himself to illustration and has illustrated more than sixty books, including Who Done It? and Louis I, King of the Sheep. You can visit him on the Web at oliviertallec.fr.

Reviews (1)

Publisher's Weekly Review

A pompous mouse with a bow tie and spectacles narrates this stylish addition to the substantial shelf of meta books. "This book will not be fun," he announces, but readers cannot help but notice a whale sailing into the spread behind him. The mouse turns to the audience: "I don't know why you're still here. Even this flying whale is bored, bored, bored." Double take. "Wait, did you see that flying whale?" Additional interruptions ruffle the mouse's composure, producing more laughs, until he stumbles on a "giant zero-gravity dance party" filled with nattily attired "impossible creatures" grooving to the beat. The rhythm is infectious, and the mouse can't resist: "Look at me! I'm `shaking my bottom,' as it were." He's lit! On the final pages, the mouse stiffens right up again, but readers have seen another side of him. Everybody knows a self-important prig they wish would just drop the pretension, and newcomer Dunlap's tale scratches that itch. Her dialogue (well, monologue) shines, and Tallec's (Who What Where?) artwork, like the mouse himself, is impeccably turned out. Ages 3-7. Author's agent: Steven Malk, Writers House. Illustrator's agent: Michaela Kozaric, Quelle Belle Histoire. (June) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.