It's a Book
Added to the Lisbon Public Library in honor of Nicholas Jon Putnam. The New York Times – Adam Gopnik
Those of us for whom books are a faith in themselves…will love this book. Though it will surely draw a laugh from kids, it will give even more pleasure to parents who have been trying to make loudly the point that Smith's book makes softly: that the virtues of a book are independent of any bells, whistles or animation it might be made to contain…The moral of Smith's book is the right one: not that screens are bad and books are good, but that what books do depends on the totality of what they are—their turning pages, their sturdy self- sufficiency, above all the way they invite a child to withdraw from this world into a world alongside ours in an activity at once mentally strenuous and physically still.