Oh The Thinks You Can Think

"This book is saturated with the delirious sense of infectious nonsense that is prevalent in all my favourite Dr Seuss books. I really like that it’s a book about how you can make up anything you like, it all starts with employing your imagination and going wherever you like. Slyly, I also revel in the fact that it’s without any sort of narrative arc, it’s just a bunch of crazy spreads. How can I get away with that? “Whatever your age, play is where we test ideas out, define rules and then see if they hold” You almost get a sense of the book being written as you’re reading it. At its heart it’s playing with words and how you can mush language to fit through any rhyming hole you like, whilst the fantastical illustrations jumble things up too, such as with the black water and white sky."