Peanut Butter & Brains
A Zombie Culinary Tale
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
Reginald isn’t like the other zombies who shuffle through Quirkville, scaring the townspeople and moaning for BRAINSSSSS! The only thing Reginald’s stomach rumbles for is sticky peanut butter and sweet jelly. He tries to tell his zombie pals that there’s more to life than eating brains, but they’re just not interested. Will Reginald find a way to bring peace to Quirkville and convince the other zombies that there’s nothing better than peanut butter and jelly?
Debut author Joe McGee and up-and-coming illustrator Charles Santoso have crafted a delicious tale about being true to yourself that will make readers hungry for more.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The Walking Dead they ain't why, they're barely decayed but the blue-skinned zombies in this ripped-from-cable spoof are still intent on eating brains. Except, that is, for one zombie kid named Reginald, who craves peanut butter and jelly. Getting what he wants isn't easy: when Reginald's quest takes him to the school cafeteria, a lunch lady "slapped a hunk of meat loaf on his tray instead. It looked an awful lot like brains." But the discovery that some things are even "better than brains" leads to a happily-ever-after ending for the living and the undead alike. Santoso's (I Don't Like Koala) ink-and-watercolor drawings sometimes lack a strong compositional punch, but they strike a successful silly-scary balance; in his best visual gag, Santoso uses speech bubbles filled with images of brains to convey the zombies' single-minded focus. Striking a reportorial tone, newcomer McGee gets substantial comic mileage out of repeating the word "brains" or "brainsssss," as it's evocatively spelled at several points. Ages 4 8.
