This paper briefly presents and analyzes In Defense of Reading: The Reader and Literature in the 21st Century by Meta Grosman. In addition, the author's views on reading and the main conclusions of her studies are presented. Meta Grosman has been dealing with the problems of reading and the reader for many years. With this book, she wishes to contribute to reading knowledge, better teaching and reading skills, and thus to a higher reading culture of young people. In her studies, she focuses on the reader, his experience and understanding of the literary text. The aim of this paper is to consider the reflections and selected conclusions of Meta Grosman on the example of the picture book Luda kuća by Sanja Lovrenčić. The chapters discuss the picture book in the light of the selected conclusions. Interpreting and analyzing a picture book involves analyzing text, illustrations, and their interaction. For the purpose of the conclusion, a little research was done on the experience of the picture book. My nephews, aged six, sixteen, and eighteen, took part in the study, and after they read the picture book repeatedly, I noted their expressed opinions. It's interesting how three people of different ages experience the same picture book. The picture book Luda kuća won the prize „Ovca u kutiji“ for the best Croatian picture book in 2021. and won the prize „Ptičica“ in the category of best picture book or illustrated book by the choice of the Children's Jury of the „Grigor Vitez“ prize, which makes the picture book interesting for analysis and for research. The paper presented my personal views and reasoning as well as the views of the people involved in the study. Based on the information gathered and my own personal views, I conclude that Meta Grosman's deliberations can be justified by the example of the Luda kuća picture book.