SuitabookThe book that will make you love books
Françoize Boucher
- Reading
- Read it aloud or in short sections, pausing to sort genuine claims from comic ones. Let the child challenge the book, add their own reasons, and stop if the humour is not landing.
- Themes
- Reading as pleasure rather than obligation: The book presents reasons to enjoy books and specifically addresses people who do not like reading, while also stating that some reasons are absurd. It appears to encourage a welcoming, non-judgemental relationship with books, presenting reading as something that can be enjoyed in different ways.
- Humour and truth: The book is described as combining genuine reasons with false, completely absurd ones, and as using humour to discuss books and readers. Its approach invites readers to notice that a claim can be entertaining without being literally true, making the reading experience playful and questioning.
- Worth knowing
- Notice how the book distinguishes its serious ideas from its deliberately silly ones. Ask whether each claim is meant literally, and whether the humour makes its view of books more inviting or less persuasive.