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B.J. Novak.

Writer · United States · b. 1979

B.J. Novak: American comedian-author behind The Book with No Pictures — the deceptively simple text-only picture book that's a near-universal preschool read-aloud for ages 3–7.

B.J. Novak is an American actor, writer and comedian born in 1979, best known to children's-book readers as the creator of The Book with No Pictures (2014), a deceptively simple picture book that uses only text and demands the read-aloud adult say increasingly silly things, which has become a fixture of preschool and early-childhood read-aloud sessions. Novak's wider career is in adult comedy (The Office, the One More Thing short-story collection). The Book with No Pictures has sold millions of copies and remains a near-universal recommendation for ages 3–7 read-alouds. A reliable celebrity-author single-book picture-book voice.