I Can Be Anything

by Shinsuke Yoshitake

Overview

A laugh-out-loud guessing game bedtime book!

It's time for bed, but Natsumi has a brilliant idea, even better than going to sleep: She'll pretend to be something and Mom will guess what she is! Ready?

Is she a caterpillar?
An arrow sign?
An upside-down bug?

Take your best guess, then laugh along with Natsumi and her mom as they play a pre-bedtime game of charades full of silliness and surprises!

• A delightfully silly read-aloud book for young children that helps soften bedtime routines
• Part picture book, part guessing game! The interactive nature will keep kids turning the page!
• Perfect book for toddlers

Fans of Guess Again, Interrupting Chicken, and Max and the Won't Go to Bed Show will love the clever kid-friendly humor of I Can Be Anything.

• Family read-aloud books for ages 3–5
• Guessing game books for toddlers

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781452180380
Publisher:	Chronicle Books LLC
Publication date:	04/14/2020
Pages:	56
Sales rank:	1,115,299
Product dimensions:	8.40(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range:	2 - 5 Years

About the Author

Shinsuke Yoshitake is the author-illustrator of The Boring Book and The I Wonder Bookstore and the creator of many award-winning picture books. He lives in Japan.

Editorial Reviews

★ 03/09/2020

Yoshitake (The Boring Book) strikes again with Natsumi, a high-energy girl in yellow pajamas whose bedtime powers of invention nearly defeat her exhausted mother. “Mommy! I have a really good idea!” Extra lines around her mother’s eyes signal bleary fatigue. “I’ll pretend to be something and you’ll guess what it is!” Natsumi announces. She puts a tangerine on her head, loops one arm by her side and sticks the other out like a swan’s neck. “What is it?” “Something dancing?” says her mother, baffled. A page turn shows a green teapot. “It’s a pot!” And the girl is off, pretending in dizzying succession to be an omelet, a baby, a bulldozer, a fan. She promises not to get upset if her mother guesses wrong, but her temper flares just the same. “Why don’t you get it?” she cries, fists clenched. Yoshitake creates lovable characters with just a few antic lines. Natsumi’s firehose of creative ideas and her mother’s despair (“Aren’t you getting sleepy?”) strike close to home in this sharp-eyed portrait of the way kids rev up just before they collapse. Ages 3–5. (Apr.)

Publishers Weekly

"Yoshitake (The Boring Book) strikes again with Natsumi, a high-energy girl in yellow pajamas whose bedtime powers of invention nearly defeat her exhausted mother. . . . [He] creates lovable characters. . . in this sharp-eyed portrait of the way kids rev up just before they collapse."-Publishers Weekly, starred review

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