Click Your Mouse Button Now!

As much as pop-up books are at hit at my home, I am delighted to have found a book that proves simplicity can still be engaging.  Press Here by Hervé Tullet tells the listener what to do (press a dot, blow the black background off of the page, etc).  With each page turn, the variation in illustrated dots seems to result from the action that the child did on the previous page.  While I enjoyed the inventiveness of the book and the way that it reinforces concepts of color, size, and pattern, the real sign that this is a winner came when my daughter chose it from the huge pile of library books at home as the one for me to read to her again.  The interactive nature of this book makes reading it feel like playing a game.