Monster Chefs
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- $14.99
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
The horribly horrible monster king summoned his four equally horrible chefs.
"I am tired of eating only eyeballs and ketchup," roared the king.
"Find me something new to eat or you will find yourselves on my menu!"
Trembling with fear, they each set off in a different direction to look for something truly scrumptious. But what, besides eyeballs and ketchup, could a monster king possibly want to eat? A rabbit? A fish? A snake? What one finally brings back may change dinnertime in the kingdom forever.
A Neal Porter Book
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In the monster king's castle, the sp cialit de la maison is ketchup and eyeballs, and the regent, a furry Cyclops with bird legs, is sick of it. He dispatches four ghoulishly goofy chefs to find him a new culinary delight. Three come back empty-handed, having been bamboozled by an ingredient ("Look around you," a sly desert snake tells one chef. "When you eat a ssssssnake you turn to sssssand"). But the fourth chef brings back a coolly confident human pastry chef, who introduces the king to cupcakes, and the rest is... well, a lot of cupcakes ("decorated with eyeballs, of course"). Brian Anderson (The Prince's New Pet), collaborating with his five-year-old son Liam, focuses his visual storytelling almost entirely on character, with much of the action taking place in highly distilled settings against white backgrounds. The narration is a winner from beginning to end: aurally redolent ("The king, spit seething from his massive mouth, glared down at them") and punctuated with lovely alliteration and delectable vocabulary, it's like a tasting course for the ear and a performer's dream. Ages 4 7.
