I Say

John Kane's I Say series is built entirely around participation: the grown-up says one thing and the child shouts the response, until the simple rules start going gloriously, gigglingly wrong. Each book — a say-this, say-that game, a gently spooky Halloween outing, a contrary round where the book refuses to behave — turns story time into a noisy, joyful performance where the children tell the story themselves. Using bold colour, sound and simple visual cues, these are reliable classroom and bedtime crowd-pleasers for 3–6s: short, punchy, endlessly repeatable, and best of all with a whole group joining in out loud.

A joyously interactive picture-book series where the grown-up says one thing and the child shouts the response — until the rules go gloriously, gigglingly wrong.

Primary themes

• Creativity and imagination
• Fear
• Imagination and play

Tone palette

• Funny
• Silly
• Warm