Is It A Real Book If It Doesn’t Have Any Pictures?

The following question was posed by a young child to his grandmother when she allowed him to hold my recently released Christian fiction novel, One Night in Tehran. He quickly thumbed through the pages, handed it back to her with a note of disgust in his voice, and asked, “How can it be a real book if it doesn’t have any pictures?”

Good question.

My book is full of words. There are no pictures. Can it be a real book then?

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