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Jul. 30th, 2009 07:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
darchildreThis week's Picture Book You Should Read (which is late, I know, but it was too frelling hot to post last night) is Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich by Adam Rex.
And other stories you're sure to like, because they're all about monsters and some of them are also about food. You like food, don't you? Well, all right then.
This is a collection of humorous children's poetry about monsters. Mostly what I think of as the Universal Classics monsters - Dracula, Frankenstein's monster, the Creature from the Black Lagoon - but there are some zombies, a couple witches, and a yeti or too, just for variety. Oh, and Godzilla.
Why should you read this book? Well, the answer for me is because it is full of monsters doing funny things. The Frankenstein's monster builds himself a giant sandwich out of the food that angry mobs throw at him. Dracula walks around with spinach in his teeth because no one can work up the courage to tell him about it. The Phantom of the Opera can't compose anymore because he can't get The Girl From Ipanema out of his head. (I sympathize because now I can't either.) If you have a soft spot in your heart for monsters, this book is well worth picking up. (As is the sequel, Frankenstein Takes the Cake, which I'll admit makes me squee like a little girl as it is mostly about the troubles involved in planning a monster wedding and Mr Rex's Bride of Frankenstein is adorable.)
Even if you're not a classic monster fan, I would still recommend flipping through this one in the bookstore, if only for the Zombie Zombie section. Two zombies doing a samba by moonlight is not a thing to be missed.
(One quibble - the book does do the thing where Frankenstein is the name of the monster rather than the doctor. Still, it is an excellent enough book that one can look past that. Any way, it would probably make the meter of the poetry much more difficult were the author to name the monster properly.)
And other stories you're sure to like, because they're all about monsters and some of them are also about food. You like food, don't you? Well, all right then.
This is a collection of humorous children's poetry about monsters. Mostly what I think of as the Universal Classics monsters - Dracula, Frankenstein's monster, the Creature from the Black Lagoon - but there are some zombies, a couple witches, and a yeti or too, just for variety. Oh, and Godzilla.
Why should you read this book? Well, the answer for me is because it is full of monsters doing funny things. The Frankenstein's monster builds himself a giant sandwich out of the food that angry mobs throw at him. Dracula walks around with spinach in his teeth because no one can work up the courage to tell him about it. The Phantom of the Opera can't compose anymore because he can't get The Girl From Ipanema out of his head. (I sympathize because now I can't either.) If you have a soft spot in your heart for monsters, this book is well worth picking up. (As is the sequel, Frankenstein Takes the Cake, which I'll admit makes me squee like a little girl as it is mostly about the troubles involved in planning a monster wedding and Mr Rex's Bride of Frankenstein is adorable.)
Even if you're not a classic monster fan, I would still recommend flipping through this one in the bookstore, if only for the Zombie Zombie section. Two zombies doing a samba by moonlight is not a thing to be missed.
(One quibble - the book does do the thing where Frankenstein is the name of the monster rather than the doctor. Still, it is an excellent enough book that one can look past that. Any way, it would probably make the meter of the poetry much more difficult were the author to name the monster properly.)
