Phone Book!

With its shiny silver cover and slender pocket size, this clever activity book resembles a smartphone. Inside, its pages (also designed to look like smartphone screens, complete with battery and Wi-Fi icons) encourage readers to take a break from screen time. London-based author-illustrator Tristram invites readers to draw their route to school and a group selfie, and to create dating profiles for friends. Readers will have fun with the novel design (complete with emoticon stickers) as the prompts gently urge them to rediscover their creativity away from their phones—and as the book’s “battery life” drains with each page turn. Ages 8–up. (July)