You might think a book with no pictures seems boring and serious. Except, here's how books work. Everything written on the page has to be said by the person reading it aloud. Even if the words say 'blork' or 'bluurf'. Even if the words are a preposterous song about eating ants for breakfast, or just a list of astonishingly goofy sounds like 'blaggity blaggity' and 'glibbity globbity'.