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* IRA-CBC Children's Choices
* CCBC Choice (Univ. of WI)


Caldecott 수상작인 The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales를 비롯해서 Math Curse, The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs!, Science Verse 등 다수의 베스트셀러 그림책의 저자인 Lane Smith의 재미있는 그림책입니다.

망아지는 노트북 컴퓨터를, 원숭이는 책을 읽고 있습니다. 망아지는 원숭이가 읽고 있는 것이 무엇인지 궁금한가 봅니다.

망아지는 책도 화면을 아래로 내릴 수 있냐고 묻네요. 책은 페이지를 넘긴다고 원숭이가 대답해 줍니다.

마우스는 어디에 잇냐고 묻습니다. 원숭이가 쓰고 있는 모자 속에서 생쥐가 얼굴을 내미네요.

게임은 할 수 있느냐? 블로그는? 트위터는? 와이파이는? 음악연주는? 망아지의 질문은 끝이 없네요. 원숭이는 이것은 책이기 때문에 그런 것을 할 수는 없다고 하면서 책을 보여줍니다.

책을 펼쳐 든 망아지는 패스워드가 필요한지, 닉네임이 필요한지 묻더니 책을 읽기 시작합니다. 책 읽는 재미에 푹 빠진 망아지는 시간 가는 줄 모르고... 원숭이가 책을 돌려 달라고 하니까, 건전지가 방전되면 다시 충전해 주겠다고 하면서 책에서 눈을 떼지 못합니다....

디지탈 세대인 어린 독자들에게 컴퓨터에는 없는 책 읽는 즐거움을 유머러스한 문장과 그림으로 재미있게 보여줍니다.

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What is 하드커버? 양장본이라고도 불리우며, 표지가 단단한 판지로 만들어진 책입니다. 판지를 천이나 가죽으로 감싸기도 합니다. 책의 속지는 일반적으로 중성처리된 종이(Acid-free paper)를 사용해서 잘 변질이 되지 않기 때문에 오랫동안 보관하기에 적합합니다. 이 종류의 책은 더스트 재킷, 또는 더스트 커버로 불리는 표지덮개가 함께 있는 경우가 많습니다. 간혹 내부 속지가 콩기름 코팅이 된 경우 고약한 냄새가 나는 책도 있습니다.

하드커버책입니다.






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Hardcover: 32 pages
ISBN-10: 1596436069
ISBN-13: 978-1596436060
책 크기: 26 cm x 21 cm



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Book Description
Playful and lighthearted with a subversive twist that is signature Lane Smith, It’s a Book is a delightful manifesto on behalf of print in the digital age. This satisfying, perfectly executed picture book has something to say to readers of all stripes and all ages.


School Library Journal
Smith jump-starts the action on the title page where readers meet the characters - a mouse, a jackass, and a monkey. The monkey's oval head creates an “o” in the word “book.” Slapstick humor ensues in an armchair face-off when one character, reared on a diet of Web 2.0 and gaming, cannot fathom what to do with a book and slings a barrage of annoying questions, “Can you blog with it? How do you scroll down? Can you make the characters fight?” Readers know who is speaking by each animal's unique font type and color, achieving economy and elegance on each page. Exasperated, Monkey hands over the volume. Life, death, and madness, all in a single illustrated page of Treasure Island, draw Jackass in. He responds with a knee-jerk reaction (“too many letters”) and hilariously reduces it to text speak, but his interest is piqued. He covets the book and readers watch him pore over it for hours. Repeated images of him transfixed, shifting left to right, up and down, ears upright, then splayed, and eyes wide open, fill a wordless spread and offer a priceless visual testimony to the focused interaction between readers' imaginations and a narrative. Mouse delivers the final punch line, which will lead to a fit of naughty but well-deserved laughter, and shouts of “Encore.” A clever choice for readers, young and old, who love a good joke and admire the picture book's ability to embody in 32 stills the action of the cinema.


Publishers Weekly
Smith (Madam President) addresses e-literacy in his irreverent style, casting a donkey in the role of digital junkie and a gorilla as a literary type. The donkey fiddles with a laptop while the gorilla holds a novel. "What do you have there?" asks the techie, whose words are printed in ice blue, sans serif letters suggestive of a chat room. "It's a book," the ape answers, in a stately orange serif font. The donkey tests the gorilla's patience: "Can it text? Tweet? Wi-Fi?" (When he asks, "Where's your mouse?" a real one pops from beneath the gorilla's porkpie hat.) After the gorilla hands over Treasure Island, the donkey gripes, "Too many letters," and converts the scene to emoticons before getting hooked on the story. "I'll charge it up when I'm done!" he promises, at which the mouse squeaks, "It's a book, jackass." This smart-aleck retort, arguably justified because the donkey is a jackass in any sense of the word, urges readers to side with the scholarly gorilla. Meanwhile, Smith has the best of both worlds: his stylish drawings, sleek typography, and kid-friendly humor combine old media and new.


Booklist
Smith throws down his gauntlet in the ongoing debate over digital versus print.


The Wall Street Journal
Stylishly designed.


Children's Literature
A small, neatly suited jackass, introduced on the title page, confronts a large, seated monkey, asking what he is holding. "It's a book," is the reply. Looking at his laptop the donkey explores this answer with a series of technological questions such as, "How do you scroll down?" and "Do you blog with it?" The monkey repeats the same simple answer. When asked where his mouse is, a lively mouse appears from under his hat. The questions about lighting, tweeting, and other computer-related actions all get the same answer from the monkey. When the monkey shows the jackass a page of the book, from Treasure Island, his reply at first is "too many letters," with some editing. It is only when the donkey begins to read the book that he is captivated. Then the monkey is off to the library for another book, with a parting shot from the mouse. The characters are created simply, in black outline, with solid color bodies and clothing. No context is needed beyond a couple of chairs and a wall clock. The wordless sequence of the donkey reading across the double page as the time passes on the clock above his head is particularly effective. The lesson of the value of an old fashioned book in this digital age comes through the humor.