A 1945 (released in 1946) Looney Tunes short subject directed by Bob Clampett, Book Revue is a semi-remake of the 1938 Frank Tashlin short Have You Got Any Castles? (or a Genre Throwback to the "things come to life in a store" plot that was very common in early 30's cartoons).

Pop culture references are up-front and center this time, along with Clampett's trademark expressive distortions and caricaturing, as well as some very catchy music. Midway through the short, Daffy Duck appears and intrudes on the story of "Little Red Riding Hood" — and the fun really begins as he's chased by The Big Bad Wolf through various books.

In 1994 it was selected as one of The 50 Greatest Cartoons by 1000 animation professionals.

"Book Revue" provides examples of:

• And There Was Much Rejoicing: When The Big Bad Wolf falls into Dante's Inferno, everyone immediately celebrates.
• Blackface-Style Caricature: A short gag has Daffy run through Uncle Tom's Cabin and emerge out of the back wearing a headscarf and striped stockings while carrying a blackface baby doll and running on ice floes — parodying the escape of Eliza with her son.
• Bowdlerization: When this short aired on Cartoon Network and Boomerang (barring its appearance on The Bob Clampett Show), the scene of the Wolf chasing Daffy through Uncle Tom's Cabin was cut due to the Blackface-Style Caricature. The former WB network also cut the Uncle Tom's Cabin chase, and cut Daffy's line, "Ah, cucaracha. So round, so firm, so fully packed, so easy on the draw" (which was a reference to an advertising slogan for Lucky Strike cigarettes; by the time the WB launched in 1995, cigarette advertising had been banned on radio and television since 1971). MeTV Toons also does not retain the Uncle Tom's Cabin scene.
• Cannot Spit It Out: Daffy tries to warn Little Red Hiding Hood about the Big Bad Wolf but instead wastes time scatting out the words instead of saying it out right.
• Cuckoo Clock Gag: The bird in the cuckoo clock at the beginning is now stone-cold plastered while shouting "Cuckoo! Cuckoo! It's twelve o'clock!".
• Dance Party Ending: Everyone celebrates the wolf sliding into Dante's Inferno.
• Even the Guys Want Him: At the end, the Wolf is sent tumbling into Dante's Inferno in awe of Frank Sinatra's singing.
• Hypocritical Humor: Henry VIII's mother chews him out and spanks him for wolf whistling at the local Cherokee Strip, only to her and other girls to fall head over heels for Frank Sinatra's singing and start cat-calling themselves!
• Malaproper: Daddy mixes up several words when saying the people are "sitting on their balalaikas, playink their samovars." A balalaika is a stringed instrument of Russian origin, with a characteristic triangular body and three strings. A samovar is a heated metal container traditionally used to heat and boil water in and around Russia, with an attachment on the tops of its lid to hold and heat a teapot filled with tea concentrate.
• Mood Whiplash: Daffy, in his smooth-talking Danny Kaye persona, suddenly breaks into "La Cucaracha" in rather typical Daffy style:
  Danny!Daffy: Dey vould seeng to me a gypsy love song. Like zees...leesin: CUCARAAAAAAAAAAAACHAAAAAAAAA!!!
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: Even for a 40's-era Looney Tunes short, this one has a lot of parodies of popular stars of the time.
  • Daffy imitates Danny Kaye (signalled by his appearing in front of the book Danny Boy).
  • The short parodies a number of popular band leaders and musicians. Young Man With a Horn is Harry James. The Voice in the Wilderness is Frank Sinatra. Brass is Tommy Dorsey (who snags W. C. Fields' nose in his trombone slide). Drums Along the Mohawk is Gene Krupa. The Pie-Eyed Piper is Benny Goodman.
  • So Big is Jimmy Durante (known for his ginormous nose).
  • The Big Bad Wolf, in his last appearance, does an imitation of comedian Joe Besser, going, "Ya sthillies!"
  • Little Red Riding Hood is child actress Margaret O'Brien.
• Not So Above It All: Alice Aldrich spanks Henry VIII for gawking at a sexy Cherokee girl, but swoons at the voice of young Frank Sinatra.
• Oh, Crap!: While Daffy is gnawing on Little Red Riding Hood's leg (demonstrating what the Wolf will do to her), the Wolf himself starts salting Daffy's leg. After Red runs off screaming, Daffy has a ginormous Wild Take before screaming and running himself.
• Pet the Dog: Despite being in the clear himself, Daffy goes back to warn Little Red Riding Hood about the Wolf.
• Product Placement: The Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies comic book is featured.
• Public Domain Soundtrack: The Judge, the Wolf, and everyone start singing to the tune of the Sextette from Gaetano Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor
• Pun-Based Title: The title is a pun on "Book Review" — a revue is a style of variety show, which this short basically is. However, the pun was tarnished in its re-release when the new title card inexplicably changed it to "Book Review".
• Recycled Animation: During the montage of women reacting to Frank Sinatra's singing, a cover of Little Women features dozens of women fainting one after another, in the exact same manner and positions as the chickens from Swooner Crooner.
• Scared of What's Behind You: When Daffy is trying to warn Little Red Riding Hood about The Big Bad Wolf, he imitates him and pretends to bite her leg. She starts screaming not at Daffy, but the real Wolf salt-and-peppering his leg.
• Scatting: Used by Daffy (in keeping with his Danny Kaye impression) to warn Red Riding Hood in song about the Big Bad Wolf.
• Shout-Out:
  • There is a reference to The Aldrich Family, a popular radio comedy series of the time, when the mother calls, "Hen-RY! Hen-ry-the-Eighth!" and he replies, "Coming, Mother!"
  • Daffy as Danny Kaye describes Cucaracha as "so round, so firm, so fully packed — so easy on the draw" is a line that originated in a "Lucky Strike" cigarette ad.
• Squee: Every female character in the library squees or swoons at the sight of Frank Sinatra. So does The Big Bad Wolf, which makes him slide down the cover of Skid Row and into the fire on Dante's Inferno.
• Spiteful Spit: Daffy Duck (doing a Danny Kaye impression) spits to show his hate of jazz and swing. He says "pooey!" since this is for kids.
• Toothy Bird: Daffy has visible teeth, which is part of the reason why we don't hear him talk with his famous lisp.
• Visual Pun:
  • The book The Complete Works of Shakespeare shows internal clockwork over a silhouette of Shakespeare.
  • Saratoga Trunk has a literal trunk on the cover that Daffy gets his Danny Kaye outfit from.
  • The "long arm of the law" is a literal long arm that stretches out from the police car to grab the Wolf.
  • When the Wolf receives his sentence from the court, he's thrown behind bars for life — and the bars are on the cover of an issue of Life Magazine.
• Wild Take: Upon seeing The Big Bad Wolf chewing on him, Daffy transforms into a giant eyeball before running off.
• Wolf Whistle: Multiple men gawk and whistle at the sexy Indian girl on the cover of Cherokee Strip, including the man on the cover of The Whistler, the sailor on the cover of The Sea Wolf, and Henry VIII.