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June 7, 2013 by Travis Jonker

The Wildest Book … Ever?

June 7, 2013 by Travis Jonker   8 comments

When weeding, sometimes you come across a book that makes you think, “this would make a good blog post”. Occasionally, as is the case today, an entire tribute blog seems more appropriate.

How about I’ll start with a post and see where this goes.

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For a moment, let’s bask in the glorious unusualness of Hands Off! by Mario Mariotti, a wordless, plotless book featuring painted hands playing soccer.

These next two are incredible:

 

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About Travis Jonker

Travis Jonker is an elementary school librarian in Michigan. He writes reviews (and the occasional article or two) for School Library Journal and is a member of the 2014 Caldecott committee. You can email Travis at scopenotes@gmail.com, or follow him on Twitter: @100scopenotes.

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  1. Greg Pincus says

    June 7, 2013 at 3:30 am

    That is amazing. I’d love to get my hands on his Hanimals collection (which has a few pages up on Pinterest). Great stuff… and I certainly can’t think of any other picture books like it. Thanks for sharing!

    • Travis Jonker says

      June 7, 2013 at 9:48 am

      That Hanimals book is wild too!

  2. MrsB says

    June 7, 2013 at 6:08 pm

    I have the Hanimals book in my school’s collection. Every year there is a child who checks it out obsessively.. These books are so fascinating. Do not weed them, ever.

  3. Adrienne says

    June 7, 2013 at 6:58 pm

    That made me laugh so hard.

    • Travis Jonker says

      June 7, 2013 at 10:44 pm

      Mission accomplished

  4. Marianne says

    June 8, 2013 at 12:55 am

    This book is great! Any idea how I could get my “hands on” a copy of this book? My daughters would love it! Is it out of print?

  5. Liz says

    June 8, 2013 at 3:55 pm

    This is so cool!

  6. lisainberlin says

    June 15, 2013 at 3:31 am

    Keep that gorgeous flower in your garden. I hope a publisher puts it out for us again.

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