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Books That Drive Kids CRAZY!: This Is a Ball (Books That Drive Kids CRAZY!, 2) Hardcover – Picture Book, June 13, 2017

by Beck Stanton (Author), Matt Stanton (Author)
4.7 out of 5 stars 309 ratings
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For the giggling masses who love Hervé Tullet's Press Here, BJ Novak's The Book With No Pictures, and Bill Cotter's Don't Push the Button comes an interactive new series!

The Books That Drive Kids CRAZY! series offers parents, teachers, and storytellers a hilarious script for fun reading time together. Book 2, This Is a Ball, is a boldly absurd spin-off of concept books, and an audaciously contrarian invitation for readers to practice deadpan delivery: after all, the picture on the cover clearly shows a cube, not a ball. The page that declares a princess is flying a kite at the beach shows an alien holding a balloon in a city...and on and on. What is WRONG with this silly book? Kids will demand to know--and all readers will be howling with laughter all along the way. With strikingly simple text and art, Books That Drive Kids CRAZY! are ideal picks for emergent readers.

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  1. Reading age
    3 - 7 years, from customers
  2. Part of series
    Books That Drive Kids CRAZY!
  3. Print length
    32 pages
  4. Language
    English
  5. Grade level
    Preschool - 3
  6. Lexile measure
    460L
  7. Dimensions
    7.88 x 0.38 x 10.63 inches
  8. Publisher
    Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
  9. Publication date
    June 13, 2017
  10. ISBN-10
    031643437X
  11. ISBN-13
    978-0316434379
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More Books that Drive Kids CRAZY! After an unfortunate sneeze, an important letter is missing! This read-aloud is perfect for fans of The Book with No Pictures. Another hilarious book, full of absurd contradictions, that will have giggling masses of readers demanding an explanation. More nonsense ensues as the narrator claims that frogs and penguins are the same color as lobsters. What??

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Praise for Books That Drive Kids CRAZY!: This Is a Ball:
"A string of narratorial mistakes...gives children a chance to gleefully correct the adult reading it aloud....Another metafictive storytime crowd-pleaser."
―Kirkus Reviews

"It's a solidly funny concept...kids will have a ball with This Is a Ball."
―BCCB

"Kids will get a kick out of this mixed up tale."―Pregnancy & Newborn


"Funny, clever, deliciously dry...this book encourages kids to think outside the square, and hopefully, somewhere deep in that unlimited subconscious, understand that what we see is all about perception. What a powerful thought."―Kids' Book Review (Australia)

"[The Book with No Pictures, Press Here, and Mix It Up] are international bestsellers and deservedly so, but closer to home we now have a book which is just as delightfully frustrating, clever and nuts."―Children's Book Daily (Australia)

"Kids will fall into fits of giggles as you try to tell them a car is a bike, and they'll only stop laughing long enough to correct you or beg to hear it all again."―Newcastle Herald (Australia)

"Not only does this book encourage object recognition, it's crazy fun for your kids."―Perth's Child (Australia)

Praise for Did You Take the B from My _ook?:
"It's a winning bit of interactive silliness that offers insight into the way small changes can have big results where words are concerned."
―Publishers Weekly

About the Author

Beck Stanton is the co-creator of the Books That Drive Kids Crazy series and a mother, primary school teacher, and the creative director/owner of mybabymoments.com.au. She has worked extensively with children throughout her teaching career and in roles that include before-and-after school care center director, nanny, and youth and children's worker.

Matt Stanton is the co-creator of the Books That Drive Kids Crazy series and the co-creator of the bestselling Fart Monster picture book series, and has sold more than 100,000 copies of his books abroad. He is also the creative director of HarperCollinsPublishers Australia and New Zealand.

They live by the beach in Sydney with their daughter Bonnie and son Boston.

Product details

  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Little, Brown Books for Young Readers; Illustrated edition (June 13, 2017)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 32 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 031643437X
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0316434379
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 3 - 7 years, from customers
  • Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ 460L
  • Grade level ‏ : ‎ Preschool - 3
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11.5 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.88 x 0.38 x 10.63 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.7 out of 5 stars 309 ratings

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Customers find the book amazingly funny and delightful for young children. They appreciate its language ability, with one customer noting how it encourages children to use a lot of vocabulary.

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Customers find the book amazingly funny, with several mentioning they laugh so hard while reading it.

"...schools with speech and language kiddos, and this book has been a GameChanger for us...." Read more

"My kids absolutely loved this book and kept correcting me on how I was saying the wrong things for what was on the pages...." Read more

"...is a great book to get little ones to have a serious, but funny conversation with you...." Read more

"This book is HILARIOUS! My kids ask to read it almost every night!" Read more

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Customers find this book delightful for young children and great for getting little ones engaged. One customer mentions it can be used to torture children for fun.

"This is a great book to get little ones to have a serious, but funny conversation with you...." Read more

"This book entertains and delights young children. I can’t keep it on the shelf at school. :)." Read more

"...It’s fun especially for the kinder and 1st grade ages kids but even my older kids enjoyed it the first time I read it." Read more

"Great book for 2-5 year olds. My nephew loved it, as does my entire early childhood class. Great for kids who like The Book With No Pictures." Read more

4 customers mention "Language ability"4 positive0 negative

Customers appreciate the book's language ability, finding it easily understandable, with one customer noting how it encourages children to use a lot of vocabulary.

"...adults is not something they usually get to do, but this book makes that easy. We both laugh so much - I'm buying the sequel. Clever book!" Read more

"...This book is short and quite simplistic. I've bought the book for several people I know and everyone gets a laugh out of it...." Read more

"...are simple and clear and so it was easily understandable and easy to follow. The kids laughed a lot and really enjoyed this book...." Read more

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  • K. T.
    5.0 out of 5 stars BUY THIS BOOK NOW!!!
    Reviewed in the United States on March 13, 2024
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    I work in elementary schools with speech and language kiddos, and this book has been a GameChanger for us. Even the kiddos that I have a really hard time getting to verbalize anything would adamantly correct me when I kept mislabeling pictures and messing with them. It was just an absolute delight. In following sessions, I’ve had the kids specifically request my “This is a Ball” book and want to share it with kids in their gen ed classes. I just got the other two by the same authors because I am a little bit obsessed. Thank you thank you thank you!
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  • Amanda
    5.0 out of 5 stars Hilarious
    Reviewed in the United States on May 24, 2024
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    My kids absolutely loved this book and kept correcting me on how I was saying the wrong things for what was on the pages. I’ll be reading this book to my son’s class in school soon. Highly recommend!!
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  • Antoinette M. Bernich
    5.0 out of 5 stars 4-year-old nephew loves this book
    Reviewed in the United States on August 7, 2022
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    This is a great book to get little ones to have a serious, but funny conversation with you. Correcting adults is not something they usually get to do, but this book makes that easy. We both laugh so much - I'm buying the sequel. Clever book!
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  • Kindle Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing book!
    Reviewed in the United States on April 28, 2025
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    This book is HILARIOUS! My kids ask to read it almost every night!
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  • M. A.
    4.0 out of 5 stars Totally Works
    Reviewed in the United States on January 16, 2020
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    The book is pretty fun and funny to read to children who know the words for the objects in this book, as they do, indeed, object and give the reader funny looks. This book is short and quite simplistic. I've bought the book for several people I know and everyone gets a laugh out of it. My one disappointment is the simplistic labeling in the book. A cube is a cube and a sphere is a sphere by definition, but the book uses a stereotypical princess in a dress with a crown and a green creature not known to science and "mis"-labels them respectively as a scary monster and happy princess. The whole premise of the book is that is mislabels things, so the fact that it labels these characters respectively implies that they are not such things, but who is to say that a green creature is not a happy princess or that the human in a dress with a crown is not a scary monster? Perhaps that's a good way to bring up the subject of stereotypes with children, but I was a little disappointed that the book subtly implies fixed roles. Otherwise, a good, fun little book.
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  • Skylar Coonan
    5.0 out of 5 stars What a fun idea!!
    Reviewed in the United States on September 18, 2024
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    The first time I read this to my daughter, we were crying laughing and it’s been a huge hit since. Now I buy it for all of her friend’s birthdays.
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  • Karen Grey-Levine
    5.0 out of 5 stars Hilarious
    Reviewed in the United States on August 25, 2022
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    This book entertains and delights young children. I can’t keep it on the shelf at school. :).
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  • Doggymcnuggets
    5.0 out of 5 stars Cute book!
    Reviewed in the United States on April 16, 2020
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    I love this book and use it with my four year olds. They loved arguing with me and thought it was funny. It was very interactive and I am a pediatric speech therapist and was amazed at how much language and talking came out of me reading this book. I liked that the pictures are simple and clear and so it was easily understandable and easy to follow. The kids laughed a lot and really enjoyed this book. They wanted me to read it again which is the ultimate rave review for me!!
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  • Happiness
    5.0 out of 5 stars Too Funny!
    Reviewed in Canada on August 28, 2021
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    This will be a great read with our grandson who has a wild sense of humour that fits this book perfectly! Can hardly wait!
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  • Jul
    5.0 out of 5 stars Interactive
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 31, 2021
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    Very interactive book for parents and child-my son loved it
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  • NC
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great book
    Reviewed in Australia on July 3, 2020
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    Good book! Love it!
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  • Ellen Butts
    5.0 out of 5 stars Book This is not a ball
    Reviewed in Canada on June 28, 2019
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    This a great book to read to younger children they love the fact that you mix everything up. Definitely recommend
    It arrived on time
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    4.0 out of 5 stars Worth buying
    Reviewed in Australia on May 6, 2024
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