This is Not a Picture Book by Sergio Ruzzier is a great read aloud for beginning readers. Horrified to find a book with no pictures, deemed “wacky” by his friend the fly, the duckling proceeds to discover that in fact there are a few words he knows. He proceeds to identify words that are happy, sad, wild and peaceful. All the words carry a reader away and stay with you forever, and with a friend like fly there is always someone who wants you to “read it again”!