What We'll Build: Plans for Our Together Future by Oliver Jeffers
Published 2020 · 42 pages · 11,550 words · about 2 hours at an average pace · Children's Literature
How hard is What We'll Build: Plans for Our Together Future to read?
What We'll Build: Plans for Our Together Future scores 90 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it very challenging. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
- Vocabulary: 80 out of 100
- A picture book for ages 2 to 5 uses very simple everyday words. It sits near the simplest end, below Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.
- Sentence structure: 80 out of 100
- Short, plain sentences suit read-aloud for toddlers and preschoolers. The opening question about what parent and child will build sets a direct pattern.
- Abstraction: 18 out of 100
- The book builds on concrete ideas of tools, building, a home and warmth. Memories and love are the only abstract notes, and they come through simple images.
- Information density: 80 out of 100
- At 48 pages and about 11,500 words in the record, it carries little information per page, with illustrations doing much of the work. Lighter than Beach Read.
- Narrative indirection: 100 out of 100
- A father-daughter story for toddlers states its meaning plainly. Pictures may add small inferences, but the message of building a life together is direct.
- Symbolic density: 16 out of 100
- Building and tools stand for making memories, safety and love, a single clear metaphor. That is a small symbolic load, far below Gatsby.
- Ironic distance: 40 out of 100
- The tone is sincere and tender, aimed at parents and small children. Nothing suggests irony.
- Resolution withholding: 80 out of 100
- A gentle bedtime picture book closes warmly. Its question about what they will build together has a reassuring answer.
- Structural complexity: 60 out of 100
- A short picture book follows a simple linear pattern of question and answer between parent and child.
How What We'll Build: Plans for Our Together Future is regarded
What We'll Build: Plans for Our Together Future holds a literary regard score of 21 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.