Zero, Zip, Zed, Zilch, Zot: The Book About Nothing by Mike Bender

WONDERING WHAT THIS BOOK IS ABOUT?

IT'S NOT ONE OF THOSE BOOKS ABOUT RAINBOWS, DIGGERS, TACOS, SHIPS, PIGS, PRINCESSES...

AND NO, THIS BOOK WILL NOT BE ABOUT UNDERPANTS.

(Take a cupcake break with a unicorn, lingerie lovers and underwear aficionados. You know who you are.)

This book is about the null and void, the naughty noughts, the nihilistic nada, the BIG NOTHING,

If you think about it, most of everything is nothing. The space between atoms is nothing. Outer space is mostly nothing. If you can't think of anything to do, you can always do nothing.

If you pick up all your toys,
there will be nothing on the floor.

If you're not thinking about anything, what are you thinking about?

Nothing.

When you're all tucked into your beddie-bye and Dad turns off the lights.... what do you see?

Need I say it again? Or shall I simply say nothing?

Some of us can stumble and fall flat over nothing. You can do nothing, you can say nothing and some say, still "speak volumes," and some of the best things in life cost nothing.

And you can read a whole book like this and learn a lot about...

NOTHING!

So nothing is really something, in Mike Bender's latest mind-bending picture book, The Book About Nothing (Crown Books, 2018), narrated, of course, by the perfect lecturer, the extinct dodo, of whom there are NONE! Artist Hugh Murphy's black-line illustrations, accented with red and yellow, leave plenty of space on each bright white page for--you got it!--NOTHING. This novel book about a lot of diddley squat and not much else will leave young readers with a lot of snickers and guffaws and incidentally a lot of great new ways to say "nothing!" (Check out the endpapers) Quips Kirkus Reviews, "Here’s a book that takes nothing seriously. . . . .