Mucumber McGee and the Half-Eaten Hot Dog - Hardcover

Loehr, Patrick

3.88

94 ratings by Goodreads

9780060823276: Mucumber McGee and the Half-Eaten Hot Dog

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060823275 ISBN 13: 9780060823276

Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books, 2007

View all copies of this ISBN edition:

When Mucumber eats a hot dog without cooking it first, his sister fears for his life, in a humorous gothic picture book that will make youngsters think twice about the ghastly things that hide in the back of their refrigerator.

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

About the Author:

Patrick Loehr is grumpy and rude. He likes writing stories about yucky food. The pictures he draws are not precious or snuggly. He thinks he is handsome- in fact he is ugly. If you see him somewhere, you'd best run away, but reading this book is (most likely) okay.

From School Library Journal:

Grade 1–3—This book opens to an ominous spread of a dark and rainy night; a large stone house; and a pale, thin boy in a black suit. The rhyming text tells the plight of this child, Mucumber McGee, who has missed lunch and dinner and is very hungry. He finds one lone hot dog in the back of the icebox and consumes half of it before his sister steps in to deliver a lecture on the hazards of eating raw meat. Mucumber spends the rest of the book dramatically awaiting his death, until Mother arrives. "Sweet Mucumber, don't worry./If you'd only looked,/the package says clearly:/Hot dogs are precooked!" While the text gets a little over-the-top, the illustrations, full of dark shadows and threatening details, are humorously macabre—the gothic figures in the old portraits are always eating something unexpected like pancakes or a turkey leg. Mucumber's faithful pet lizard also helps to keep the mood from getting too heavy. For the youngest fans of dark humor.—Julie Roach, Cambridge Public Library, MA
Copyright � Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.