Title: Nothing
Illustrator: Jon Agee
Genre: Easy to Read, Children's Fiction
Subgenre: Picture Book
Theme: A town becomes crazy over buying nothing.
Primary/Secondary Characters: Otis, Suzie Gump, Wally, Sam, Tubby Portobello, people of the town
Award(s)/Publication Year: Orbis Pictus Winner/2007
Publishing Company: Hyperion Books for Children
Brief Summary/Book Usage: Suzie Gump comes into a store owned by Otis and wants to buy nothing. Otis sells her nothing for three hundred dollars. The next day she comes back and wants to buy more nothing and Otis tells her he cannot sell her nothing, so she goes somewhere else to buy it. The town becomes crazy with people selling nothing and people wanting to buy nothing. Everyone is getting rid of their stuff to make room for nothing, so Otis soon has an antique store full of items again. Suzie Gump then comes and buys everything, and Otis is back to where he started from and refuses to sell nothing again. I would use this book in my future classroom during a reading activity or story time with the whole class.
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