Frankenstein
A Monstrous Parody
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3.6 • 5 Ratings
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
This is a laugh-out-loud funny and devilish send-up of Ludwig Bemelmans's Madeline for little monsters everywhere.
This ebook includes audio narration.
Frankenstein is the scariest of all the monsters in Miss Devel's castle. He can frighten anything—animals, parents, even rocks. Until one night, Miss Devel wakes up and runs downstairs to find that Frankenstein has lost his head!
Frankenstein by Rick Walton and illustrated by Nathan Hale is a delightful twist on a classic story that parents and kids can both enjoy together. This is the perfect funny picture book read for Halloween or the fall season.
Praise for Frankenstein:
“Walton twists the classic rhymes of the original with glee ('In two crooked lines, they bonked their heads / pulled out their teeth / and wet their beds') while Hale reenacts each scene with devilish mayhem.” -Booklist
“The illustrations have traded sunny yellow for pumpkin orange backgrounds and make comically sly allusions to the original title.” -Kirkus Reviews
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Walton (Baby's First Year!) and Hale (Animal House) beat Goodnight Goon parodist Michael Rex to a 1939 classic: Ludwig Bemelmans's Madeline. Playing on the Americanized rhyme between Madeline and Frankenstein, Walton and Hale style themselves as "Ludworst Bemonster" and recast the Parisian girls' school as a ghoulish academy: "In a creepy old castle all covered with spines,/ lived twelve ugly monsters in two crooked lines.... The ugliest one was Franken-stein." Instead of headmistress Miss Clavel, readers get Miss Devel, a pallid scientist who sleeps on a gurney; instead of appendicitis, Frankenstein suffers from a missing head, and a voodoo doctor attaches a replacement. Frankenstein's classmates including a mini-Dracula, mummy, and swamp thing are so impressed by Franken-stein's new neck screws, they follow his example and lose their heads in the book's inconclusive conclusion. Walton and Hale mime Bemelmans's poetry and lithography, amplifying the grotesque and picturing stone castles in autumnal shades of pumpkin and ash. Fans of the original unsettling in its own right, for its lack of parents and predictable comforts will enjoy spotting the parallels in this creepy-cute Halloween substitute. Ages 4 8.
Customer Reviews
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