Synopses & Reviews
CAUTION! This book contains monkeys, alligators, and a whole lot of silliness.
You really shouldn’t be opening this book.
I’m serious.
Just put it back on the shelf.
Right...now.
You’re still reading this?
Well, don’t say I didn’t warn you...
It looks like a book, it feels like a book, and it even smells like a book. But watch out...madness and mayhem lie within! Debut author Adam Lehrhaupt urges you NOT to take a walk on the wild side in this humorous, interactive romp with inventive and engaging illustrations from Eisner Award-winning comic artist and rising star children’s book illustrator Matthew Forsythe.
This quirky, subversive creation begs to be enjoyed again and again and again.
Review
"Children won't be able to resist the urge to turn the page as they wade through caution tape, warning signs, and scenes of chaos. The madcap mayhem includes monkeys stealing the illustrator's tools to paint their own drippy forest, a flock of swooping toucans, and an alligator sprawled across several spreads. Only the introduction of a banana trap can possibly save the story. The witty text is direct, and the art soars and leaps as much as the animals. Forsythe's digital art features a subtle palette of browns and grays and the characters are rendered in a bold contemporary style with simple broad strokes. In the grand tradition of books that warn children away from reading them... this one invites readers into the action. More fun than a barrel of monkeys"
School Library Journal
Review
"Forsythe's digitally rendered art is hilariously expressive and laugh-worthy in its own right, and it is well-paired with Lehrhaupt's spare comic text, successfully creating a book that is enjoyable both to read and behold. In the tradition of humorous metafictive offerings of the past, this celebration of chaos is a veritable festival of fun."
Kirkus Reviews
Review
"Kids following along will relish the exhilaration of breaking the rules as well as the simple but clever means of cleaning it all up. Expect the titular exhortation on this one to be thoroughly ignored again and again."
Bulletin of The Center For Children's Books
Review
"A picture book that warns children to walk away from it — ensuring they'll eagerly turn every page to view the consequences."
Shelf Awareness
Review
"Reverse psychology runs rampant in this amusing collaboration between first-time author Lehrhaupt and award-winning illustrator Forsythe....The earth-tone digital illustrations well replicate the messy monkey business of painting all over the trees and pages, and the playful arrangement of text adds greatly to the book's mayhem. Wonderful chaos."
Booklist
Synopsis
CAUTION This book contains monkeys, alligators, and a whole lot of silliness.
You really shouldn t be opening this book.
I m serious.
Just put it back on the shelf.
Right...now.
You re still reading this?
Well, don t say I didn t warn you...
It looks like a book, it feels like a book, and it even smells like a book. But watch out...madness and mayhem lie within Debut author Adam Lehrhaupt urges you NOT to take a walk on the wild side in this humorous, interactive romp with inventive and engaging illustrations from Eisner Award winning comic artist and rising star children s book illustrator Matthew Forsythe. Warning: Do Not Open This Book? won the E.B. White Read-Aloud Honor award and was a 2013 Huffington Post Best Picture Book honorable mention and an ALA Notable Children s Book.
This quirky, subversive creation begs to be enjoyed again and again and again.
These monkeys are a RIOT And their books are funny, too Ame Dyckman"
Synopsis
An E. B. White Read-Aloud Honor Book An ALA Notable Book A Huffington Post Notable Book CAUTION This book contains monkeys, alligators, and a whole lot of silliness.
You really shouldn't be opening this book.
I'm serious.
Just put it back on the shelf.
Right...now.
You're still reading this?
Well, don't say I didn't warn you...
It looks like a book, it feels like a book, and it even smells like a book. But watch out...madness and mayhem lie within Debut author Adam Lehrhaupt urges you NOT to take a walk on the wild side in this humorous, interactive romp with inventive and engaging illustrations from Eisner Award-winning comic artist and rising star children's book illustrator Matthew Forsythe. Warning: Do Not Open This Book? won the E.B. White Read-Aloud Honor award and was a 2013 Huffington Post Best Picture Book honorable mention and an ALA Notable Children's Book.
This quirky, subversive creation begs to be enjoyed again and again and again.
"These monkeys are a RIOT And their books are funny, too " --Ame Dyckman
About the Author
Adam Lehrhaupt is an art director for a medical company. He is the author of Warning: Do Not Open This Book! and Please! Open This Book! He lives with his family in Pennsylvania.