I Will Race You Through This Book!

by Jonathan E. Fenske, Jonathan Fenske (Illustrator)

Overview

See if you can beat Book-It Bunny in a reading race!

In this story designed to engage early readers, charming characters combine with simple text, lively illustrations, and laugh-out-loud humor to help boost kids' confidence and create lifelong readers!

This easy-to-read adventure breaks the fourth wall as Book-It Bunny challenges the reader to race her to the end of the story. But with distractions and tricks up her sleeve along the way, the competition becomes both fierce and funny at the same time. On your mark, get set, read!

Exciting, easy-to-read books are the stepping stone a young reader needs to bridge the gap between being a beginner and being fluent.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781524791964
Publisher:	Penguin Young Readers Group
Publication date:	05/07/2019
Pages:	32
Sales rank:	519,449
Product dimensions:	4.90(w) x 7.40(h) x 0.20(d)
Lexile:	270L (what's this?)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Jonathan Fenske (he/him) is the Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor-winning author-illustrator of Love Is in the Air; Guppy Up!; Woodward and McTwee; A Pig, a Fox, and a Box; A Pig, a Fox, and Stinky Socks; We Need More Nuts!; and Please, No More Nuts! He lives in Simpsonville, South Carolina.

Editorial Reviews

"With fast-paced text and illustrations to match, Fenske has created a page-turning race that readers will surely want to run again." —Publishers Weekly

"Since finishing this book means winning a race, it delivers an extra sense of satisfaction for beginning readers." —Kirkus

From the Publisher

03/18/2019

Speed-reading takes on new meaning when a rabbit named Book-It Bunny challenges readers to a race in this interactive early-reader-turned-race-course. With long ears, buckteeth, and a tendency toward duplicity, Book-It proves to be a wily competitor. Only a page after uttering “Get set!” the rabbit is already pleading “Stop! I was not ready yet!” From there the action becomes largely visual, with Fenske’s thick line drawings emphasizing the protagonist’s theatrics: Book-It sneaks across the page while the reader’s eyes are closed, whizzes to the right edge of a spread, and pants for air. Turning to trickery—“Look up! Is that a flying cow?”—backfires when an actual flying cow comes on the scene, and though the bunny stretches out one long ear while nearing the finish line, of course the reader gets there first. “I did not even want to win,” Book-It coyly declares before challenging a new racing partner: a snail. With fast-paced text and illustrations to match, Fenske has created a page-turning race that readers will surely want to run again. Ages 4–8. (May)

Publishers Weekly