Monster Sleepover!
Written and illustrated by Scott Beck
Publisher: Abrams Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 978-0-8109-4059-8
Summary/Back cover:
Doris throws a slumber party for Ben and her other friends, complete with games, snacks, and an effort to stay up all night.
Review:
This book gets an automatic high rating because it made my kids crack up laughing the first time it was read to him. Granted, it was told by their dad who has a way of making stories funnier than they are… and one of the kids had eaten two pieces of chocolate… but still, it’s an amusing wee story.
There is the main story told along the bottom of the pages, but there is the second narrative told through the speech bubbles of the characters. The illustrations themselves are another story altogether. An example is the page where the skeleton monster picks up an apple. Along the bottom of the page it reads “Someone looks hungry”. We then watch the storyboard of illustrations as a worm crawls out of the apple, the monster removes the worm, looks between the apple and the worm, decides to eat the worm, rubs his tummy happily, then asks via speech bubble “Who wants an apple?” (Yes, that was one of the pages that had my husband and children in fits of giggles).
It’s an unusual book, and entertaining. So long as you don’t mind your children being exposed to books with skeleton monsters who like to eat worms, then I would recommend this story.
My rating: 4 out of 5
Review written by team_s
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