![]() ![]() ![]() Uff da! Go berserk! Read this book! (Picture book. Ronan presents white while his fellow barbarians are a range of different skin tones. You don’t have to be a librarian to appreciate signs like, “Come Read! Free Mead!” and the sneaky, book-eating goat that sharp-eyed listeners will notice cropping up on multiple pages. Visual gags courtesy of Maderna complement but never overshadow the humor. Choice use of repetition, hilarity, and good old-fashioned storytelling is the name of the game. Consistently clever and upbeat, this paean to reading is far more than just mere preaching to the book-loving choir. To truly hook these warmongers, it’ll take a clever read-aloud. Eager to share his new enthusiasm and his collection, he invites his fellows to a library opening only to find that you can lead a barbarian to a library but you can’t make ’em read. Pillages now turn into new opportunities to find more reading material. ![]() ![]() Rather than use it for origami, kindling, or toilet paper, Ronan discovers a passion for reading. But everything changes the day he happens to glance at a picture in a book he accidentally stole. Like his fellow barbarians, Ronan invades, raids, and trades on a regular basis. A common raider finds an uncommon new passion. ![]()
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