Monster School
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
Twilight's here. The death bell rings. Everyone knows what the death bell brings—it's time for class! You're in the place where goblins wail and zombies drool. (That's because they're kindergartners.) Welcome to Monster School. In this entertaining collection of poems, award-winning poet Kate Coombs and debut artist Lee Gatlin bring to vivid life a wide and playful cast of characters (outgoing, shy, friendly, funny, prickly, proud) that may seem surprisingly like the kids you know . . . even if these kids are technically monsters.
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Coombs (Water Sings Blue) conjures up a school full of spooks using snappy rhymes, a variety of verse forms, and plenty of imagination. Amusing doggerel about the school cafeteria food ("old shoe stew and ankle cake") mixes with a dirge by a ghost who can't scare anyone ("The witch is the worst./ She doesn't even flinch. She just says,/ Stay out of my way, Sophie,/ or I'll turn you to lint") and a moody meditation from a lonely soul ("People call me a ghost, like my edges are fluttering./ But I'm just quiet"). Comic artist Gatlin's more ghoulish figures have blank black eyeholes, while more human-seeming kids sport colorful hair and regular duds ("They'll think I'm ordinary... until the moon is full"). Entwining tendrils and wisps of smoke deepen the sulfurous atmosphere, and classic school elements subverted for laughs will make kids want to ditch their own school and go to this one. Ages 5 8.
