Author Tom Booth Holds 'Don't Blink' Story Time

From Macmillan Publishing: Date: Tuesday, June 13th

Time: 5:00 PM
Location: Kepler's Books
Address: 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park, CA 94025

This is not your typical picture book! Don't Blink! breaks the fourth wall, drawing readers into an actual staring contest with the animal characters on the pages. Young readers and fans of Press Here and The Book With No Pictures will love testing their staring skills against a gorilla, a cheetah, a fox, and an alligator -- all of whom are featured in the official book trailer here.

Author/illustrator Tom Booth actively shares his artwork with fans on Facebook, Tumblr, and especially Instagram, on which he has more than 33,000 followers alone. Here, nine posts featuring characters from this book received more than 1,000 likes each.

Think you can win a staring contest against an elephant? What about a gorilla, a cheetah, a fox, or an alligator? What about all of them—AND a bunch of their other animal friends—at the same time?

Whatever you do, DON’T BLINK! Readers will enjoy testing their own staring skills against a vibrant assortment of characters in this interactive picture book from talented new author, Tom Booth.
“Kids will want to hear this story over and over again.” –The Huffington Post

“A normally instantaneous reflex is stretched out over three very funny spreads, and the reader is declared the
winner. (Equally funny is a tortoise’s glacial progress across the page to see what’s going on.) Ingenious,
interactive, and just meta enough, it may even convince a few reluctant readers that staring at a book can
be a lot of fun.” –Publishers Weekly, starred review

“A jolly fun interactive read-aloud, perfect for one-on-one and small group sharing.” –School Library Journal

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