The Future Book

PreS-Gr 3–This tongue-in-cheek guidebook from the future reveals all kinds of silly surprises about what the future will be like. Morning is night and night is morning. Bananas are called apples, and apparently there is no word for apples because there are no apples in the future. The color orange has been replaced by the color blorange, which is a very popular word because nothing rhymes with it. The full-bleed illustrations are presented in ink and gouache, which, according to the end papers “means something totally different in the future.” A lot of people in the future are called “Charlie Cheese Face” while instead of saying goodbye, it is “You smell like a baby.” Young readers will have a rollicking good time pondering the reasons for all of this. Two award-winning authors make for an explosive combination in this crowd-pleasingly zany story that is sure to be a story-hour hit. Humans are depicted with a mix of skin tones. Recommended for all picture book collections.