The story of greasy salesman, Mr. Al Foxwood, who tries every marketing tactic in... the book, it reminded me of an old activity I used to do with my drama/improv class. I'd have a box of random objects, and small groups would have to pick blindly, then "pitch" the object to the class. It was typically a lot of fun and many approaches were similar-- if not as perfected-- as Foxwood's spiels to get you to buy not one, not two, but 742 copies. What a great book this would have been to introduce the idea.
It's also a great book to teach about media awareness and advertising (though, some of the methods are a bit "old school" now), or voice. But rest assured, it doesn't have to have all the fun sucked out of it by over-eager teachers, the book would be fun completely on its own.
The pictures too are delightful. Simple, but still clever. I especially loved how the book Foxwood is pushing is Have I Got a Book for You! which has that whole meta thing going on. I'm reminded of an old Smurfs record I used to have where a Smurf was holding up the album cover of a Smurf holding up an album of a Smurf holding up an album of a Smurf... and so on until it was too small to see. I thought it was the coolest.
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