What do you do with a book that doesn’t want to be read? Why open it, of course!

The Book That Did Not Want To Be Read is a laugh-out-loud picture book for all children of an age where they want an adult to read to them. Since this particular book most certainly doesn’t want to be read it will act up and squirm around, much to the delight of said children. Letters will go missing, the book will try to close itself, burn your fingers, and play all manners of pranks on you who are reading it. It will do just about everything it can to make you give up and put it down.

The Book That Did Not Want To Be Read is a declaration of love for the togetherness that occurs at that moment when, perhaps usually at bedtime, a guardian, parent or carer reads aloud for one or more who are still fascinated by how squiggles on a page can hold all of those fairytales and figures.

And perhaps best of all – when a child wants to hear The Book That Did Not Want To Be Read, it will invite not only them but also the adult to maybe dip their toes in the waters outside the box; to become creative, playful, and able to say things that might otherwise be forgotten in all haste. Like, “I love you.”