The White Book

Reviewed by: Jill O'Connor - North Yarmouth Academy, Yarmouth, Southern Maine Library District

Review Date: October 14, 2015

Review

This wordless picture book was first published in Italy in 2013. The main character is a boy who gleefully wields a paint roller. As he paints each page a color, a scene is revealed. Each scene pleases the boy, but then the birds fly away, the fish swim down, the dinosaur roars, the elephant squashes, and the giraffes pluck...the boy off his feet. Children will delight in guessing how each picture goes "wrong". Finally, the color reveals a dog, and the boy no longer needs the paint roller for his entertainment. The reader can imagine the boy and his adorable orange dog running off the page to play at whatever game is next. A fun way to talk about color and predictive text. Recommend.

Overall Book Score: very good