It's A Book!

Smith, L.  (2011).  It's a book.  NY:  Roaring Brook.

This clever book has a mouse, a donkey, and a monkey exploring the difference between electronics and a book.  The donkey finds it amazing that a book does not need a password, a mouse, or to be plugged in.  After hours with the book, donkey does not want to give the book back to monkey and monkey needs to go to the library to get another book.

Lane Smith uses shape in his book titled It’s A Book.  The shapes he uses includes squares, circles, rectangles, and ovals.  The main subject of the story is a book so the rectangular shape of a book is repeated over and over to carry the topic of the story.  The monkey and the donkey sit in the rectangular chair as they read so it moves the reader’s eye across the page.  The monkey has a repetitive pattern of circles by having a polka dot shirt, a round hat, an oval face, and oval nose.  Even the little mouse, is drawn with shapes.