Review: It's a Book by Lane Smith

I don't often read children's easies, that is large books with lots of pictures and very little words. This one was recommended to my be our Children's Librarian and after reading it I can see why.

Recommended for: Any current lover of technology or books, funny enough to be appealing to all ages.

Everyone in my workplace knows I'm a computer geek and that I hardly devote myself to the reading of books nowdays. "It's a Book" by Lane Smith explores this, with the two characters bantering about what a book can and can't do. Each question asking about the books capabilities is met with the simple phrase "It's a Book". At one point the technologically minded Jackass the donkey offers to shorten part of Robert Louis Stevenson's "Treasure Island".

LJS: rrr! K? lol!
JIM: :( ! :)

This really made me giggle and at the same time wonder how long it will take before our beloved wireless reading format becomes obsolete.

© Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins of Penny Arcade

Then again, think of all the trees we'd be saving.