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By this point, I'd have said the most important things I wanted to say, and I'd be coasting to the end of the review, without wanting it to appear like that's what I was doing. I'd change direction slightly by talking about the illustrations, but I'd refer back to Traction Man to make the review flow a bit better. The references to Traction Man would be about how the words are dotted all over the page, drawing the reader in and making them pore over everything. (I'd try not to worry about saying "pore over" in yet another review). I'd also mention how ''Don't Read This Book'' creates the perfect impression of being an incomplete book, with the pages awash with scribbled notes and graph paper. I'd probably dig out another synonym for 'fun'.
Hopefully, the thrust of my review would be clear by now, and it'd be a case of of tidying up the loose ends then telling everyone to buy it. I'd be thinking whether it was too late to mention that the young readers would need to be of a certain age or intelligence to truly get the joke. If I said that, I'd then have to trip over myself to make it clear it wasn't ''too'' complicated. The simplest way would be to refer to another book, saying it was at a similar level to [[''The Jolly Postman '' by Janet Ahlberg and Allan Ahlberg]] - although Bookbag doesn't have a review of that, hopefully it's famous enough for people to know the level I mean.
Once I get to this point in a review, it pretty much writes itself: I tell everyone to buy ''Don't Read This Book!'' because it's super, I thank the publishers for sending it to Bookbag, and I pick out a couple of similar books that people might like. I'd probably also be glad that I resisted the urge to mention [[The Princess Bride by William Goldman|The Princess Bride]], because although it breaks the fourth wall too, it's aimed at adults, rather than children. So what other books would I recommend fans of ''Don't Read This Book!'' also read? [[DogFish by Gillian Shields|DogFish]] was fantastic and had a slight surreal twist, so that'd be a good one. [[Does a Sea Cow Say Moo? by Terry Webb Harshman and George McClements|Does a Sea Cow Say Moo?]] also seems to have a silly vein to it, although I might give it a second thought as Magda's mentioned a clunky rhyme, which is my current bugbear in children's books.
