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"Playaway Kids"--Container

Issued on Playaway, a dedicated audio media player

Playaway Digital Audio

One set of earphones (not included) and one AAA battery required for listening

Previously released by Recorded Books

Narrated by Jarvis Cocker; Lydia Fox

... Quirky, smart, and genre-busting, this is the saga of a book that nobody wants to read--until the day it meets YOU. The life of a book isn’t easy, especially when people judge you by your cover (not every book can be adorned with sparkly unicorns!). And this narrator should know—it’s the book itself, and it has a lot of opinions. It gets irritated when readers bend its pages back, and it finds authors quite annoying. But it does have a story to tell -- readers meet a book that has never been read, with a cover the boring color of a school lunch table and pages so dry they give bookworms indigestion. But what happens when this book meets you, a curious reader? ... a hilariously subversive take on the nature of books and reading, with a heartening theme of finding the courage to tell our own stories. Readers of all ages will be delighted by the myriad bookish references and laughs.

Interest age level: Ages 10-14

Interest grade level: Grades 5-9