Press Here: Board Book Edition: 1 (Herve Tullet)

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Beginning with a single yellow dot on a white page, as seen on the cover, the narrator instructs the reader to take various actions, each of which leads (or seems to lead) to various changes in the artwork, as they turn the page. This interactive picture book experience will, I suspect, by very your-mileage-may-vary depending on personality type. Trolls who encourage serious self-harm, cyberflash or share intimate images without consent now face the very real prospect of time behind bars, helping protect women and girls who are disproportionately impacted by these cowardly crimes.

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We know a safer life online cannot be achieved overnight; but Ofcom is ready to meet the scale and urgency of the challenge. That's not counting the adults I know who have to have it forcibly removed from their hands before they can rejoin the conversation. Since the book is constantly telling “you” what “you” should do next, the reader would have to read the text and then do the instructions themselves. As we become older readers, this engagement, the different perspectives we use to make sense of story have to happen abstractly.Otherwise you might find them approaching you like small determined zombies, arms outstretched so that they might press and touch and rub and tap the book for themselves.

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This is a very entertaining, interactive book, and at the end kids are invited to read again, and will likely want to read (play) again. Children and adults alike will giggle with delight as the dots multiply, change direction, and grow in size! This book is a fun instructional book to help children take control of their physical and emotional wellbeing and see the connection between the two.

When we talk about picture books that break down the fourth wall, we’re usually talking about titles that approach the reader directly with a narrative like The Monster at the End of This Book or Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus or Can You Make a Scary Face So where do we slot the little French import Press Here by Herve Tullet? Each page of this surprising book instructs the reader to press the dots, shake the pages, tilt the book, and who knows what will happen next!

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No-one should be afraid of what they or their children might see online so our reforms will make the internet a safer place for everyone. Hervé Tullet is the creator of more than fifty children’s books, including Press Here, which has been translated into twenty-seven languages.

Criminals found guilty of this base offence will face up to 6 months in prison, but those who threaten to share such images, or shares them with the intent to cause distress, alarm or humiliation, or to obtain sexual gratification, could face up to two years behind bars. I am immensely proud of the work that has gone into the Online Safety Act from its very inception to it becoming law today. And while you are older and know that you could just flip the page and the change will occur without following instruction, it is more fun to play along; you have a want to suspend yourself in the magic. I say that in full knowledge of the fact that only a certain privileged segment of the current youthful population has the opportunity to play with interactive electronic toys.