Sipping Spiders Through a Straw: Campfire Songs for Monsters is written by Kelly DiPucchio and illustrated by the talented Gris Grimly. It boasts 18 awesome parodies, including Home of the Strange (Home on the Range), My Delicious Frankenstein (Oh My Darling Clementine), Do Your Guts Hang Low (Do Your Ears Hang Low), and Slither and Stink (that's right, folks...somebody actually successfully grossified 'Skinnamarink' - it's fantastic!). This little volume is so much fun it's earned a place on our 'Absolutely Everybody Should Own This Book' list.
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By: Kinderscares,
on 5/13/2010
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The Monsterologist: A Memoir in Rhyme
Ghostwritten by Bobbi Katz
Illustrated by Adam McCauley
Sterling Publishing, 2009
ISBN: 978-1-4027-4417-4
Bobbi Katz, author of many picture books and books of poetry for kids, puts her talent to work here with 23 monster-related poems sure to make you giggle. She pulls creepy creatures from all over into play, from mythological beasts (Medusa and Cyclops) to movie monsters (Godzilla) to literary terrors (Frankenstein and Dracula) and creatures of her own creation. I particularly like the Verbivore, who attacks books and eats the action. But I have to take issue with the Suds-Surfing Sock-Eater - everybody knows there’s no monster in the washing machine stealing your socks. It’s the dryer that zaps them into another dimension...obviously.
Anyhow. From Grendel’s family recipe for Danish pastry (main ingredient: Danes) to
By: Marya Jansen-Gruber,
on 10/21/2009
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With Halloween just around the corner, many young (and not so young) people are thinking about witches, spiders, carved pumpkins, ghosts, and ..... monsters. I just reviewed a book that will delight monster enthusiasts of all ages. It is called The Monsterologist: A memoir in rhyme.
Gris Grimly and Adam Rex are two of my favorite artists and I'm so glad to hear about these books. I think I tend to overlook to kids section sometime, but oh how wrong I've been. ;)
If you click the Gris Grimly tag at the bottom of the post, we've reviewed quite a few awesome kids books he illustrated!
Once you get sucked into the kids section, you can never overlook it again... *cue ominous music*
Thanks for the book tips!
I'm gathering a Halloween care package to send to my 3 year-old niece. Methinks I'll be picking up one of these to throw in...
This is a serious list of awesome-spooky-sauce with a side of severed finger fries! I love love love Frankie Makes a sandie. I would like to add Tony DiTerlizzi's Spider and the Fly to this list. So good and creepy with its imagery on the classic short.
AllHallowSteve - I personally buy every little kid we know a copy of Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich, and it's never failed to be a hit! Glad you like the list!
D.M. - That book looks awesome! Now I have to go out and get it.