No! That's Wrong!

by Zhaohua Ji and Cui Xu

Book Overview

A serendipitous breeze starts off this playful journey which begs the seemingly simple question, "When is a hat, not a hat?" Along the way, Rabbit manages to learn a little bit about friendship,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1933605669
• ISBN13: 9781933605661
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Kane/Miller Book Publishers
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 7.9" x 11.1"
• Age Range: 4 to 7 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 2

Customer Reviews

Yes! It's so funny.

Well... It doesn't mean to be a potty training book. As a bonus, this book just added another level of potty training in my house, besides all the fun of reading the book talking about friendship, moral value and honesty. Now my son wants his own underpants and tries to give up his diaper. Although the bunny decided "It's a wonderful hat", my son had no problem to learn it's a underpants and where he should put it on. From the cover to back, the book is full of beautiful water color drawings.

Delightful story that will elicit lots of giggles

A pair of ruffly red underpants blows off a clothes line and lands near a little white rabbit who immediately places them on his head. "It's a hat," he says. The text at bottom corrects him, "No, that's wrong. It's not a hat." But the rabbit doesn't seem to listen and goes about placing the underpants on the heads of other animals. It takes a donkey to set him straight and let him know he's wearing underpants on his head. But, if the donkey is right, and they really ARE underpants, where does his tail go? Along the way, the story introduces a number of adjectives and opposites. For example, the "hat" is too small for an elephant, but too big for a fox, and it's simply amazing, magnificent, incredible...you get the drift. I really can't think of anything that's much funnier than a bunch of animals with hilarious facial expressions wearing underpants on their heads, and children will laugh out loud at this book and its illustrations. I can just imagine them yelling, "No! That's Wrong," as they turn the pages. Even the back end papers will elicit giggles as readers see a number of animals incorrectly wearing articles of clothing and other objects on their bodies. If you're looking for a funny book that will make your child (and you) laugh and also introduce some new vocabulary words along the way, this would make an excellent choice.

Wonderful

Adults and kids should love this book and in doing so find a place of agreement that society forgets.

It couldn't be more right

Vast Quasi-Generational Fact of the Day: Underpants are funny. I'm sorry, but they are. Whether you call them bloomers or knickers or panties or undies, the fact of the matter remains that they amuse everybody. Adults watch Saturday Night Live sketches where Will Ferrell walks about in a thong and children's books have Captain Underpants. Now I knew that underwear was funny to Americans, sure. But until I read "No! That's Wrong!" by the dynamic duo Zhaohua Ji and Cui Xu I had NO idea that it was a universal love. You want to make a case for the common humanity of man? Well just hand this book, translated naturally, to anyone on this planet and I'll bet you that a good 75% get the joke. Ji and Xu bring us a tale where a community supports the protagonist's originality and it is the stuffy individual that tries to instill a sense of "normality". On a windy day a pair of red undies fly off a laundry line and directly into the path of a meandering rabbit. The rabbit takes one glance and immediately knows what he has in his possession. "It's a hat!" At this point an omniscient narrator attempts to intervene and inform the rabbit of its mistake. "No, that's wrong. It's not a hat." Paying scant attention to this advice the rabbit tries the hat on his other friends. Each one is impressed by the find, though it's clear that the undies fit the rabbit's head best. Unfortunately a donkey in purple sneakers informs the rabbit of its huge mistake. Shown the "error" of its ways, the bunny attempts to wear the underwear on its bum, but nobody (aside from the narrator and the donkey) thinks that this is a good idea. The rabbit considers the matter, releases the border of the pages so that the narrator can't interfere any longer, and in a final leaping display of pleasure declares loud and long and strong, "It's a wonderful hat!" And that is all there is to that. Geez oh petes, there's all kinds of stuff going on in this book. First of all, there's the current Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! trend of breaking down the fourth wall and allowing the reader the chance to affect a picture book character's actions. That's huge. There's the fact that the other animals in the community are totally behind the rabbit's decision to wear the underwear as a hat and protest vehemently when he tries to wear them "correctly". There's the fact that the rabbit ultimately rejects the narrator's advice by tearing apart the very borders of the book, allowing the watercolored background to seep into the white border around each page. And finally there's the fact that the underwear on that rabbit's head isn't boxer briefs or even tighty whities. No, these are bright red, very lacy, rather sexy panties. I LOVE this choice. It is incredibly funny for a rabbit to wear something out of a Victoria's Secret catalogue on its head and later on its tuchis. It also takes a bit of guts on the artists' part, so kudos all around! Speaking of the artists', the work in this book is a remarkabl