Picture Books that Break the Fourth Wall

These silly picture books speak directly to the reader, inviting interaction and active engagement with the story. Books that encourage this kind of reader participation can foster print motivation in children, which is simply the desire and motivation to read. Print motivation is an important early literacy skill for young children.           


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The Book That Did Not Want to Be Read

A humorous interactive story about a book that does not want to be read and will do just about anything it can to make you give up and put it down. 





If You Laugh, I'm Starting This Book Over

Readers are challenged not to laugh in a series of increasingly hilarious prompts and jokes that lead to a serious message about the pleasures of laughter. 



Oops!

What happens when you knock on an egg? Flip a plate of sloppy spaghetti? Clap your hands near a tree full of birds?…OOPS! When children might otherwise be encouraged to be careful or quiet, in Oops! they are invited to explore cause and effect in mischievous scenarios without the real-life consequences. The results are often surprising and always fun! 

This title is also available for checkout as an eBook on Hoopla. 


There's a Unicorn Stuck in My Book

Don’t ask how it happened, but there’s a unicorn stuck in this book! Kids will be entertained by the escapades of a magical unicorn, as it tries to get out of the book and get on with unicorn things! 


A Very Cranky Book

A snarky tale of a very cranky book that might not be so cranky after all. 


The Wrong Book

Uh oh – everything is going wrong in this book. Find out what our storyteller must do when bicycles say cock-a-doodle-doo and firefighters shout “Ding Dong!” 


You’re Going to Love This Book!

Daring readers not to have fun, this unique and uproarious picture book has everything – comedy, drama, action, heart – and what’s even better, it has homework, a trip to the dentist and raisins – nature’s candy!