The Incredible Book Eating boy

Locations
Call Number: E JEF, Kids Book / Picture Books / General / Jeffers, Oliver
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Pittsfield Branch, Traverwood Branch, Westgate Branch

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown Kids Books 4-week checkout	E JEF	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Downtown Kids Books 4-week checkout	E JEF	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Downtown Kids Books 4-week checkout	E JEF	4-week checkout	Due 04-22-2024
Downtown Kids Books 4-week checkout	E JEF	4-week checkout	Due 05-20-2024
Pittsfield Kids Books 4-week checkout	Kids Book / Picture Books / General / Jeffers, Oliver	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Traverwood Kids Books 4-week checkout	Kids Book / Picture Books / General / Jeffers, Oliver	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Westgate Kids Books 4-week checkout	Kids Book / Picture Books / General / Jeffers, Oliver	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Malletts Kids Books 4-week checkout	Kids Book / Picture Books / General / Jeffers, Oliver	4-week checkout	Due 05-02-2024

Henry loves to eat books, until he begins to feel quite ill and decides that maybe he could do something else with the books he has been devouring.

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COMMUNITY REVIEWS

lovely story! submitted by fairytale on July 12, 2012, 6:40pm This book is a lovely, funny story that kids (and parents) will love!

Just as good! submitted by juju6471 on July 11, 2013, 3:57pm This is such a funny story!I love this book!You have to read this book!

Great! submitted by Bookeepers on August 12, 2016, 1:18pm Beautifully done book. My three year old loves it and would definitely hold slightly older kids also.

hilarious submitted by .-.-.-. on June 25, 2021, 6:27pm Amazing book for kids of all ages with good humor, illustrations, and much more. A must read.

Check out with caution… children sometimes take things literally submitted by rea2mill on July 25, 2022, 8:54am We enjoyed this book very much and I would recommend it, as I would almost all of Oliver Jeffers books. However, I will say that with this particular book we ran into a unique problem… I got to sheepishly return it with several other books that all had their pages nibbled…
Fortunately Oliver Jeffers has another book, The Great Paper Caper, which among other things shows young readers that paper is made from wood fibers. So we had a good talk about how hard wood is and how sharp splinters are and about whether it seemed like something that sharp and hard even in tiny ground up pieces might not be a safe thing to put in your body. We also talked about respecting books and lots of other things, and the problem has not persisted. But there was a week…