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* ALA Notable Children's Books
* ABA E.B. White Read-Aloud Award 수상작
* Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year Selection
* Huffington Post Best Picture Book
* Irma S Black Award


사람 심리가 하지 말라면 더 하고 싶고, 보지 말라면 더 보고 싶지요. 이 책은 책 표지의 제목이 "이 책을 열어보지 마시오!"라는 강력한 경고문입니다. 그리고 표지를 열면 첫 페이지부터 온갖 경고문과 함께 아직은 안전한 페이지에 있으니까 절대로 페이지를 넘기지 말라고 합니다. 도대체 책 속에 무엇이 있길래 이토록 위험하다고 하는 걸까요? 천방지축 원숭이들과 투칸새, 그리고 이들을 잡아 먹으려고 큰 입을 벌리고 다가오는 악어...

결국 마지막까지 이 책을 다 읽은 독자는 위험한 원숭이, 투칸새, 그리고 악어를 바나나로 유인해서 책 속으로 안전하게 다시 집어 넣어야 하지만, 바나나가 묶여진 실을 따라 가다보면 책 뒷표지 그림에 그 결말이 그려져 있습니다.

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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: 40 pages
ISBN-10: 1442435828
ISBN-13: 978-1442435827
책 크기: 23.7 cm x 23.5 cm



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Book Description
CAUTION! This book contains monkeys, alligators, and a whole lot of silliness.
You really shouldn’t be opening this book.
I’m serious.
Just put it back on the shelf.
Right...now.
You’re still reading this?
Well, don’t say I didn’t warn you...

It looks like a book, it feels like a book, and it even smells like a book. But watch out...madness and mayhem lie within! Debut author Adam Lehrhaupt urges you NOT to take a walk on the wild side in this humorous, interactive romp with inventive and engaging illustrations from Eisner Award–winning comic artist and rising star children’s book illustrator Matthew Forsythe. Warning: Do Not Open This Book? won the E.B. White Read-Aloud Honor award and was a 2013 Huffington Post Best Picture Book honorable mention and an ALA Notable Children’s Book.

This quirky, subversive creation begs to be enjoyed again and again and again.



School Library Journal
Children won't be able to resist the urge to turn the page as they wade through caution tape, warning signs, and scenes of chaos. The madcap mayhem includes monkeys stealing the illustrator's tools to paint their own drippy forest, a flock of swooping toucans, and an alligator sprawled across several spreads. Only the introduction of a banana trap can possibly save the story. The witty text is direct, and the art soars and leaps as much as the animals. Forsythe's digital art features a subtle palette of browns and grays and the characters are rendered in a bold contemporary style with simple broad strokes. In the grand tradition of books that warn children away from reading them, such as John Perry's The Book That Eats People (Tricycle, 2009), this one invites readers into the action. More fun than a barrel of monkeys.



Booklist
Reverse psychology runs rampant in this amusing collaboration between first-time author Lehrhaupt and award-winning illustrator Forsythe. Opening this book is like venturing into a cordoned-off danger zone. Those who disobey the cover threats are met with four pages of comically dire signs: “Come On . . . Seriously?” and “I Guess You Don’t Mind Being Mauled by Monkeys.” There’s a catch-your-breath moment after the reader turns the next page, quickly followed by a riot of monkeys barreling across a double-page spread, toting paints, crayons, and a guitar. The narrator implores the reader to get out before things get worse. And they do get worse, with the destructive monkeys being followed by toucans and an alligator that opens his jaws very, very wide. At last, the narrator supplies the reader with an ingenious way to lure the whole zoo back into the confines of the book. The earth-tone digital illustrations well replicate the messy monkey business of painting all over the trees and pages, and the playful arrangement of text adds greatly to the book’s mayhem. Wonderful chaos.