ReadItDaddy's Picture Book of the Week - Week Ending 4th October 2019: "Incredible Jobs you've (probably) never heard of" by Natalie Labarre (Nosy Crow)

Do you ever get that "Rabbit in the Headlights" moment whenever anyone asks you what you want to be when you grow up? C changes her mind on an almost daily basis - and to be honest I still don't have a clue either.

But think outside the box with the fantastic "Incredible Jobs you've (probably) Never Heard Of" by super-talented Natalie Labarr.

Natalie uses a goodly dose of humour, truly fabulous illustrations - but an entirely non-fiction approach to gathering together some of the wildest and wackiest jobs on the planet.

Fancy being someone who has to sniff-test everything that will go on space missions, to make sure the items are not too whiffy and distracting for astronauts? Yep that's an actual job.

Or better still, someone who colour-coordinates people's lives if they have absolutely no colour sense of their own (dear lord, I think I need to hire this person!)

Perhaps someone who babysits baby Sloths? That sounds exactly like the sort of job C would love to do.

You'll find all these and more in a gorgeous large-format hardback packed with amusing and cartoonish illustrations, but real actual things you can do instead of the usual aspirations in life. I mean who wants to be a boring YouTube Streaming Superstar when you can be a waterslide tester or a matress jumper instead?

Sum this book up in a sentence: A fabulous book of the week that will offer tons of inspiration if you're the sort of person (like us) who has no idea what they want to be when they enter the world of work.

"Incredible Jobs you've (probably) Never Heard of" by Natalie Labarre is out now, published by Nosy Crow (kindly supplied for review).