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Oliver Jeffers presents The Incredible Book-Eating Boy!

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Henry loved books, but not like you and I love books. No, not quite.

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Henry loved to eat books.

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It all began quite by mistake one afternoon when he wasn't paying attention.

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He wasn't sure at first and tried eating a single word, just to test

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Next, he tried a whole sentence, and then the whole page

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Yes, Henry definitely liked them

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By Wednesday, he had eaten a whole book

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And by the end of the month, he could eat a whole book in one go

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Henry loved eating all sorts of books

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Storybooks, dictionaries, joke books, books of facts

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And even math books

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But the red ones were his favorite

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And he was going through them at a fierce rate

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But here's the best bit

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The more he ate, the smarter he got

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He ate a book about goldfish

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And then he knew what to feed Ginger

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Before long, he could do his father's crossword in the newspaper

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and was even smarter than his teacher in school.

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Henry loved being smart.

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He thought that if he kept going, he might even become the smartest person on earth.

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So he kept eating books and he kept getting smarter and smarter and smarter.

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He went from eating books whole to eating them three or four at a time.

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Books about anything. He wasn't fuzzy, and he wanted to know it all.

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But then things started going not quite so well.

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In fact, they started going very, very wrong.

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Henry was eating too many books, and too quickly at that.

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He was beginning to feel a little ill, but here's the worst bit.

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Everything he was learning was getting mixed up.

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He didn't have time to digest it properly

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It became quite embarrassing for him to speak

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Suddenly, Henry didn't feel very smart at all

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More than one person told him he should stop eating books

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So, Henry gave up eating books and sat sadly for a long time

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What was he to do?

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Then, after a while, and almost by accident

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Henry picked up a half-eaten book from the floor

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but instead of putting it in his mouth

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Henry opened it up and began to read

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and it was so good

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Henry discovered that he loved to read

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and he thought that if he read enough

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he might still become the smartest person on earth

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it would just take a bit longer

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now Henry reads all the time

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Although every now and then

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The end