"The Book that Jack Wrote" by Jon Scieszka

One other book that I found from the same Author (Jon Scieszka) is called "The Book that Jack Wrote". Again, the illustrations are what made me first preview the book and then looking at the inside flap got me even more interested. The inside flap copy talks about being the inside flap copy and how you as the reader are probably wondering what this book is about.It is about Nursery Rhymes and Fairy tales written in a very abstract way, just like the pictures. The pictures almost look like they are put together in a collage style, but in fact they are just really detailed and the shading and coloring is really interesting. I thought this was a clever way to grab the readers attention, because now you want to know what this book is about. So the story starts out with a framed picture of a person lying underneath a huge book called"The Book that Jack Wrote". This book is interesting because it isn't the ordinary fairy tale. However, the text is simple and has a lot of rhyming and repetition. For example: "this is the cat, that ate the rat, that fell in the picture, that lay in the book that jack wrote". Each page, there is a new twist to the story which is added to the rhyming verses and to the story. It seems that the story is being told backwards and at the end you see how the man in the tattered coat at the beginning of the story got squashed by the book. The illustrations are what really hold this book together and make it entertaining and unique.