Monster Goose: A Magic Shop Book - Hardcover

Judy Sierra; Jack E. Davis

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0152020349 ISBN 13: 9780152020347

Publisher: Harcourt Childrens Books, 2001

Synopsis

Old Monster Goose has turned Mother Goose’s world of nursery rhymes inside out! Here she presents twenty-five deliciously disgusting new poems, filled with rodents and maggots, zombies and ghouls, spiders and, of course, monsters. Remember King Cole? That terrible troll washes his feet in the toilet bowl. And poor Mistress Mary, her garden’s quite scary--its killer potatoes ate all her tomatoes and now are out looking for Mary!
From the bestselling author of Antarctic Antics: A Book of Penguin Poems and the popular illustrator of the Zack Files comes a zany book that has everyone talking:

“Terribly tasteless. Downright gross.”--Mother Goose
“Somebody, help!”--Mistress Mary

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Review:

Something has happened to good old Mother Goose--she's not the same kindly storyteller she once was. In fact, that isn't Mother Goose tapping away at her laptop computer at all. It's Monster Goose! With a diabolical grin beneath her granny glasses and fangs peeking out from her beak, this twisted matriarch wreaks marvelously evil havoc on 25 favorite nursery rhymes. Now featuring ghouls, vampire bats, and cannibals, these verses appeal to the perverse corner in every reader's mind. Just a taste:

There was an old zombie who lived in a shoe.
She had so many maggots, she didn't know what to do.
So she soaked them in soapsuds and painted them green.
She'll be giving them out next Halloween.

Not for the faint of heart, Judy Sierra's grisly rhymes are accompanied by such fabulously hideous illustrations by Jack E. Davis (the Zack Files series, Bedhead, etc.), any potential nightmares will be diverted by helpless giggles. Readers will delight in identifying the original classic nursery rhymes behind such titles as "Mary Had a Vampire Bat," "Weird Mother Hubbard," "Hush, Little Monster," and "Werewolf Bo-Creep." Sierra and Davis are an ingenious pair indeed. For more ghoulish nonsense, don't miss Sierra's The House that Drac Built. And for still more playful poems, try her Antarctic Antics: A Book of Penguin Poems. (Ages 5 and older) --Emilie Coulter

About the Author:

JUDY SIERRA began revising Mother Goose's traditional rhymes at the age of two. The bestselling author of a monstrous number of children's books, she lives in northern California.

JACK E. DAVIS is the illustrator of the popular Zack Files series, as well as picture books including Bedhead and Music Over Manhattan. He lives in Lincoln, Nebraska.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harcourt Childrens Books
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0152020349
• ISBN 13: 9780152020347
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 56