What is it that makes YOU want to read a book? Richard Ayoade's children's debut gives you all the answers in a way that's silly, funny, and thoroughly beguiling. Kids & Children» Children, Teenagers & Young Adults (YA) Fiction» Humorous Stories for Children & Teenagers

Being an adult, seeing it through more mature eyes, I took a deeper meaning away from it than he possibly intended? And I loved the messages it gave me. ❤️ Overall, this has been an entertaining read and I am sure it scores with the children with its fantasy and imaginative storytelling also the funny drawings. A great way to inform our young readers to explore more of their reading choices, and probably to start writing stories (you would understand once you know the ending). Books can contain stories or facts about, and therefore be, virtually anything you can think of, but have you ever considered what a book might think about and feel? One neglected book in The Book That No One Wanted to Read, by Richard Ayoade and illustrated by Tor Freeman, has a chance to change its destiny when a reader encounters it and pulls it from a hiding spot on a high shelf, offering it a new future. Richard Ayoade is an actor, writer and director best known for his BAFTA-winning role as Maurice Moss in the British comedy The IT Crowd, and for directing the 2010 comedy film Submarine. He’s also written books about film. The Book That No One Wanted to Read is his first book written for younger readers, and his trademark dry and irreverent humour shines through brilliantly.One book that I really think children should read is The Book That No One Wanted to Read." David Baddiel Throughout the book, Ayoade includes elements such as characters who are aware they are in a book, and they also comment on the plot and the other characters, making the book more of an exploration of storytelling itself. I found it quite clever and original, it makes you think about the creative process of writing and the purpose of stories. As a teacher, I think that this meta aspect would be something that children in KS2 will enjoy and can spark conversation about the nature of books.

It’s another Bookwagon day in our house. The kids were so excited to get their latest books in the post. From actor-author-broadcaster-comedian-filmmaker Richard Ayoade comes a book narrated by . . . a book. Quirky, smart, and genre-busting, this is the saga of a book that nobody wants to read—until the day it meets YOU.Us books need to be seen. We need to be held. We need to be heard. I think that's why children make the best readers, because they know that these things are also true of them.**” I sometimes wonder whether you couldn't say the same is true of us books. If no one can read us, what are we?