"You might think a book with no pictures seems boring and serious. Except . . . here’s how books work. Everything written on the page has to be said by the person reading it aloud. Even if the words say . . . BLORK. Or BLUURF. Even if the words are a preposterous song about eating ants for breakfast, or just a list of astonishingly goofy sounds like BLAGGITY BLAGGITY and GLIBBITY GLOBBITY."--publisher's website.

"THE END. Wait. What? But we just opened this book! oh, you mean THE END is the title of the book? That's like calling the last day of school THE BEGINNING. Well . . . I guess it's the beginning of summer. But what happens between the beginning and the end? Oh . . . we have to stop reading the jacket and start reading the book to find out? Well, why didn't you say so? THE END (of the jacket)" --book jacket.