I Love Books bookcover

I Love Books

Mariajo Ilustrajo

Winner of the Klaus Flugge Prize for Illustration 2023

From the award-winning creator of Flooded and Lost comes a magical story about the joy of discovering a connection with books for the very first time.

This brightly illustrated adventure story is perfect for kids who claim to hate reading, as the enchanting narrative opens their eyes to a fantasy world created by words on a page. In this spellbinding story, we meet a little girl excited for the end of term. No more school! However, she’s given the very unreasonable task of reading a whole book over the holidays. A whole book? but she HATES books. Luckily, her sister takes her to the library and says she has just the thing. Slowly, the little girl is drawn into a world of adventure inside her own imagination, for the very first time. Even the greyscale world starts to fill with colour as she is carried away in the story. A little fennec fox leads her to meet fairytale witches and creatures as they find ingredients to cast a special spell at the end of her book. The little girl is dismayed to learn that this spell seemingly hasn’t changed a thing. However, the little fox points out that she is completely transformed: discovering the power of her imagination has changed her forever. This charming and engaging picture book shows children how wonderful books can really be, leaving them with a lifelong affinity for reading. Discover adventure on every page and turn I Hate Books into I Love Books.

Latest reviews

This book is all about the magic of books and how quickly you can slip into their immersive world (very relatable). The illustrations are beautiful and absolutely bring the whole book together. A brilliant example of the power of literature, and how it can change even the most adamant book haters views on reading.

I like the girl in the book.

I love it

The girls has a super imagination!

I would recommend this book to most kids!

I love when the girl decided she loved books, at the end. I would recommend this book to Elsie because I think she will like it very much.

The Reading Agency

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