For the giggling masses who love Hervé Tullet’s Press Here, BJ Novak’s The Book With No Pictures, and Bill Cotter’s Don’t Push the Button comes an interactive new series! The Books That Drive Kids CRAZY! series offers parents, teachers, and storytellers a hilarious script for fun reading time together. Book 2, This Is a Ball, is a boldly absurd spin-off of concept books, and an audaciously contrarian invitation for readers to practice deadpan delivery: after all, the picture on the cover clearly shows a cube, not a ball. The page that declares a princess is flying a kite at the beach shows an alien holding a balloon in a city…and on and on. What is WRONG with this silly book? Kids will demand to know–and all readers will be howling with laughter all along the way. With strikingly simple text and art, Books That Drive Kids CRAZY! are ideal picks for emergent readers.

What Kind of Book is This Is a Ball

Topics

balls monsters size and shape imagination and play

Genres

funny and humorous fiction

Reviews

The Notorious RAD

4.50

This book may encourage engaged readers to question reality, and to ask good questions.

Book Lists That Include This Is a Ball

Books about balls

The Day Santa Stopped Believing in Harold

Books about silly

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Books about funny and humorous

The Creatives Behind the Book

Author & Illustrator

Beck Stanton

Beck Stanton is the co-creator of the Books That Drive Kids CRAZY! series and a mother, primary school teacher, and the creative director/owner of mybabymoments.com.au. She has worked extensively with children throughout her teaching career and in roles that include before-and-after school care center director, nanny, and youth and children’s worker.

Illustrator

Matt Stanton

Matt Stanton is a bestselling children’s author and illustrator, with over a quarter of a million books in print. He is the co-creator of seven bestselling picture books, including the mega-hits, THERE IS A MONSTER UNDER MY BED WHO FARTS and THIS IS A BALL. He is launching his much-anticipated middle-grade series, FUNNY KID, around the world in 2017.