in the future this book will make sense to no one. it will have to be re-named the incredible kindle-eating boy. i wrote this review only to prove that even when i take a break from paper-writing to read a childrens book, i am still on-topic mentally. so give me an a please...

We had read this one before, but I just had to check it out and read it again with all that is going on with books these days. Here's a book that really should be banned (tongue-in-cheek). I can't believe anyone could condone eating books with all of the lead in books out there! ha!

This is a pretty funny book about a boy who likes to eat books. As he eats he gains knowledge but pretty soon he's eating too many and getting his facts mixed up. Finally, he picks one up to read instead of eat and fi More...

Henry loved books. A bit too much! They weren't just food for his thought, they were rather food for his belly!

Henry reaslied he loved eating books after mistakenly putting one in his mouth one afternoon. Soon he was eating more and more books, anything type he could find. The pages filled his belly and the informaton filled his mind.

But then things started to go horribly wrong. Henry started to feel sick because he was eating so many books that he didn't have time to digest all them all. The in More...

Olivers Jeffers has created a wonderful book that makes reading seem very cool-which obviously it is! The illustrations are as likeable for adults as children and each page is interesting to look at with more detail noticeable each time.
The story is about a litle boy called Henry who loves books so much that he starts to nibble at them. First he just had a word here and there and before he knew it, he was gobbling 5 or 6 books at a time. The side effect was that Henry became more and more cleve More...

Brief Plot Summary:

This book is about a boy called Henry and his love for books. Henry loved books so much that one day he began to eat them. It all started one afternoon when he was day dreaming. From tasting a single word, to a sentence and then a whole book, Henry developed an appetite for books which could not be controlled. His obsession led to him being able to eat a whole book in one go! Henry enjoyed eating lots of different types of books, but red books were his favourite. The more book More...

This book is perfect for kids in Key Stage 1 or lower Key Stage 2. A boy develops a penchant for eating books instead of regular foods. He notices when he eats a book he digests the information contained within and soon becomes desperately smart - smarter even than his teachers!

However, as he eats more and more books he begins to get indigestion. Not in a normal way, of course, but by getting confused with all the information he has ingested. Soon he realises that he can ingest information by r More...

This is a funny little story about a boy who begins eating books. Henry starts of eating a word, a sentence and then a whole book. He ends up eating five in one go, better still, he realises the more books he eats the smarter he gets. He soon begins to feel ill and gets confused. So, instead of eating them, he starts to read them.

The book itself has a corner of it 'chewed' off to add effect to the story. Children would love this and it's a good note to start the story on. This book has wonderful More...

Written and beautifully illustrated by Oliver Jeffers, this is an extremely clever and engaging book to read to any class. I read this to a class of Year 1's and from the very beginning they absolutely loved it. Even the cover which features a corner that has been 'bitten off' ensures children are excited and engaged from the word 'go'. The book is about a boy named Henry who absent-mindedly begins to eat books and realises he is getting smarter with every word, every page and every book he eats More...

Henry is a book lover, but not like you and me. He loves books because he loves to eat them! Not only do they taste good, but he finds that when he eats them he gets smarter. He eats a book on goldfish and then knows all about goldfish. So he eats more and more books, figuring he would soon be the smartest person in the world. But then things go very wrong. He's eating so many books that he feels sick and information is getting jumbled around in his mind. He stops eating books, but then he doesn More...

The orientation of this book is portrait because it portrays Henry and his adventures eating books and what he discovers. The art style is very interesting in that it has different backgrounds varying from newsprint to contemporary blocks to actually making sense in the context of the story, such as a library or at home. The type of type face is very interesting in that it changes when I believe the author wants to emphasize or draw attention to a textual detail. Other than that it looks like an More...

The backgrounds for the illustrations in this book are phenomenal. From the establishing shot, all the way to the final opening, the illustrations are backed by images of very old paper. This made me wonder if books, like wine, become better as they age, and young Henry was just leaving his scraps for the illustrator to use as he told Henry’s story. One qualm I have with the way this was done is that I wish that the illusion of the old paper went all the way to the end of the pages, but on nearl More...

The Incredible Book Eating Boy was a humorous story. It is hard covered and in portrait shape. The endpapers are bright orange which complement the cover which is composed of browns, reds, oranges, and yellows. The illustrations are full bleed and very well done. Sometimes in the story, the illustrations are double page spreads while at other times, the page is divided into sections with multiple illustrations. The background of the pages are all different forms of paper. For instance, there is More...

The Incredible Book Eating Boy by Oliver Jeffers is a very funny story. Henry is the main character, and he loves to eat books. Henry starts out small by only eating a single word, but it slowly turns into eating three or four books at a time. This is a very original and humorous story that shows readers how everyone can get pleasure out of reading. Even though this story is not realistic, it is a funny way to portray how every person will like something different about books. An aspect of this More...

“The Incredible Book Eating Boy” by Oliver Jeffers is a book about a boy that loved eating books because every time he would eat books he would get smarter and smarter. But then one day, he began to feel sick. So much information was in his brain that he body didn’t know how to function; he couldn’t talk properly, or figure out problems anymore. Then he decided what would happen if he just read a book instead of eating it. He began to get his talents and skills back and then he learned to love b More...

There's a big difference between eating green eggs and ham and eating Green Eggs and Ham. In The Incredible Book Eating Boy, Henry opts for the latter, consuming books in a manner that fills the stomach as it feeds the brain. Henry begins with a word, then a sentence and builds up to downing an entire book in one sitting. It's the express way to becoming smart. Until things backfire.

I have read this book to many classes and it is always a hit. Jeffers's straightforward text is enhanced by simple More...

The Incredible Book Eating Boy by Oliver Jeffers is a very clever book, that has lessons hidden within it! Henry loves books, but not in the conventional way, Henry loves to eat books and when he eats them he absorbs the information in them and becomes more clever. Eventually he eats too many and gets sick, he also gets confused and doesn't know all the things he used to know. All the information got jumbled up. He then begins to read like one should with books and he realises he quite enjoys th More...

Oliver Jeffers is my new favorite picture book author/illustrator. His books are quirky but have a solid underlying story, which is something I think gets lost a lot in modern picture books. This particular book is the story of a boy who begins eating books. He finds himself getting smarter and smarter, so he eats more and more. Soon he begins to feel ill and get confused. So, instead of eating them, he starts to read them. I think it is great taken at face value, but also has an underlying mess More...

Henry has a strange food habit: he loves to eat...books! And the more books he eats the smarter he gets. Henry loves being smart. He aspires to be the smartest person in the world. However when Henry finds that books are making him sick several people tell him he must stop eating books. Henry things they might be right when all of the information in his head begins to get mixed-up and confused. He begins to make no sense when talking. What was he going to do? Henry finds a book that he only took More...

The Incredible Book Eating Boy was a very entertaining book. Henry enjoys book so much he actually eats them! And as his eats them, he gains more and more knowledge. Eventually, he eats too many books and gets all of his thoughts and facts jumbled. This book is definitely out of the ordinary and I think it is something children would really enjoy. It teaches kids that you can actually gain a lot of knowledge from reading and hopefully they know they can do this without actually eating them. The More...

There is a boy who loves eating books. In fact, he loves eating them so much that he started consuming more than one a day! The more he ate, the smarter he became. Until one day, when he started eating so many books that things stopped working in his favor.

An incredibly funny and exciting book to read to children of all ages. The plot is appealing to all children, because they know that it is ridiculous to eat an entire book. A corner of the hardcover book looks as if it has been chewed off wit More...

Alice handed me this new picture book and it's great! Henry loved books, "but not like you and I love books, no. Not quite..." I like how the illustrations are painted on old book pages. Read it to find out the Irish word for "ejecting the contents of your stomach." Also note on the back cover: "Disclaimer: Please do NOT try to eat this book at home."

I think this book is very creative. The boy loves books and eats, eats, and eats them. As he is eating the information, he obtains it all and it makes him smarter. But one day all the information in his head is all mixed up. Then he decided to actually read a book instead of eating it and finds out he enjoys reading, without eating it. Its a good book to share with children who haven't figured out they enjoy reading, or don't have the time to read. After learning all semester about look at the c More...

"Henry loved books. But not like you and I love books, no. Not quite..."

And so begins a story about a boy who loves books so much, he eats them. He loves them all, but especially red ones. The more he eats, the smarter he gets, spewing out mathematical equations and geographical features and upstaging his teacher. But he consumes books at such an alarming rate, we begin to wonder...how can this be good for him? He starts to turn a bit green.

Can he find a balance between loving books so much he More...

A very strange story to this book but kids like strange! I read this to a class of year 2's and they were engaged from the very start.
It's about a boy who one day decides to eat a book to become smarter. He starts of eating a word, a sentence and then a whole book. This part allowed me to ask questions on the elements/features of a sentence (Capital letters, full stop etc) to illicit the childrens knowledge.
The book itself has a moral, a very obvious one that is to NOT eat books to get smarter. More...

The Incredible Book Eating Boy is a humorous book which, I believe, is well suited to both KS1 and KS2. Henry is a boy who loves books, but not in a conventional way. He eats books for breakfast, lunch and dinner. He realises that the more books he eats, the smarter he gets. It gets to the point where he is eating four books in one go! However, he eats so many books that all the information in his head gets mixed up and he is struggles to answer even the easiest of questions. e.g. “2 + 3 = eleph More...

The Incredible Book Eating Boy by Oliver Jeffers is a picture book about a boy called Henry who one day just took a bite of a book and liked it so much he started eating books. He found that the more he ate the smarter he got so he kept eating books. He became very smart at the start but after a while he started to get very sick. The knowledge he got from the books started to get all jumbled up and he started making mistakes. He eventually stopped eating books and started to read them.

This wonde More...

I love everything about this book--the outlandish story, the understated drawings, the collage background, but especially the positive message about how reading makes you smarter. Henry eats books, first a word at a time, a sentence, a page, etc., until he's downing the whole book. He gets smarter and smarter with each book. However, too much of a good thing, you know... And then we learn the Irish word "boke" which means "ejecting the contents of your stomach" which Henry does into the toilet. More...

The cover of this book is very fun and has really cool font. It is on a plain brown background which accentuates the colors of the letters.The end pages are a bright orange. There isn't a designated theme throughout the book border wise. Some pages have a border, some have full bled illustrations. The illustrations are unrealistic and more earth toned colors. The back cover page has a little bite out of it which i really found entertaining because the book is about a kid who eats his books. The More...

The Incredible Book Eating Boy by Oliver Jeffers is about a boy who can't stop eating books; especially red ones. He finds that his intelligence increases proportionately to the amount of books he devours. Until one day it all goes wrong...
This is a fun book and I would definitely have it in my classroom as a book that children can read and enjoy independently. The book is witty and very imaginatively written.
The illustrations, however, are the highlight of this book. The book looks like it ha More...