No matter how much a world advances, reading is always going to be a useful ability. The better people (or Kumaw) can read and comprehend what they’re reading, the better they will understand the world around them. Here are some of the Kumaw’s favorite books:
Recommended: The Wump World immediately immerses the reader into a tranquil world that is disrupted by creatures from another planet who only have one purpose - to drain the Wump World of all its resources, they leave the kind animals (the Wumps) slowly watching their world turn from brilliant green and blue to pale gray. Perhaps the Kumaw love this book because they can relate to it - after all, their world was once expansive before most of it was taken away from them. Beautifully illustrated, this book is a classic, and probably the Kumaw’s favorite.
Recommended: Quite often we rely on books to take us away from where we are - transport us to another place, and any Richard Scarry book can do that instantly. With his classic illustrations that show what goes on behind the walls of every building imaginable, we see animals acting as humans, going about their day-to-day activities in the most interesting way. You can easily get lost in this book, and spend hours looking at the illustrations - no kidding! This is the type of book that can be visited over and over and over again.
Recommended: What better book for monsters to love than this one. Beautifully illustrated, and I mean BEAUTIFULLY, the book demonstrates the power of imagination, and a person’s ability to turn a even a tiny bedroom into a world of adventure. While this book is about the standard number of pages for a children’s book, the illustrations and story feel as though it takes you as far as a book with 100 pages, and when you’re finally done that you have truly taken a memorable trip.
Recommended: Kumaw love this book because it’s all about family. A son lost, this book excellently displays the fear, frustration, and sadness both parents and lost boy feel when they’re apart. It demonstrates that as time passes, love doesn’t fade, and if anything grows during absence. Illustrated in what might be considered a looser style, it’s a nice change of pace from the other books listed above. Plus, simply put, the story is just really memorable and clever.
Recommended for slightly older children: We quite often relay on others to do the heavy lifting when it comes to books - meaning have them translate into movies for us, which are much easier to get through. But why take someone’s interpretation of a book when you can go straight to the book itself and you can read exactly what the author envisioned. In this case, a deep sleep dream, influenced by sounds and small touches coming from the real world. As in dreams, things that make no sense do make sense until we finally wake up. And no matter how smart we think we are - dreaming mixes up even our most ingrained knowledge - but that’s the fun part, dreams take us on a really wild ride! Alice, in this book, has the wildest ride of them all!
