Frankenstein Takes the Cake - Hardcover

Rex, Adam

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0152062351 ISBN 13: 9780152062354

Publisher: HMH Books for Young Readers, 2008

Synopsis

No one ever said it was easy being a monster. Take Frankenstein, for instance: He just wants to marry his undead bride in peace, but his best man, Dracula, is freaking out about the garlic bread. Then there’s the Headless Horseman, who wishes everyone would stop drooling over his delicious pumpkin head. And can someone please tell Edgar Allan Poe to get the door already before the raven completely loses it? Sheesh.          In a wickedly funny follow-up to the bestselling Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich, Adam Rex once again proves that monsters are just like you and me. (Well, sort of.)

About this title

About the Author:

ADAM REX is the author and illustrator of Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich, a New York Times Book Review bestseller, and Pssst!, a Book Sense Autumn 2007 Top Ten Children’s Pick and an Amazon.com Top 10 Editors’ Pick. He lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

From School Library Journal:

Grade 3–6—Rex returns with a sophisticated and stylish sequel to his sidesplitting Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich (Harcourt, 2006). From a stream of consciousness that seems to have retained and remixed an assemblage of horror movies, literature classes, comic strips, and observations of the human condition, the narrative flows despite multiple mediums and frequent interruptions. Children who have seen the 1935 Bride of Frankenstein will get the most out of the framing story, told initially in sequential panels and featuring the conically coiffed mate-to-be in a lively exchange with her mother over marrying someone with green skin and the looming wedding expenses coming just hours after the girl's funeral. Interspersed with the marital plot are blog posts from the Headless Horseman (exhibiting photographs of his decomposing head and the sensible canned substitute) and glimpses into Edgar Allan Poe's study, rendered in shadowy charcoals. These scenes are hilarious for students in the know. Rex channels the tortured poet's meter, internal rhyme scheme, and alliteration throughout his parody during which Poe struggles for the right choice in a crossword puzzle involving the wife of a "veep": "But what the devil is a veep?" he weeps, as lo, the clock strikes four. Quoth the raven, 'Tipper Gore.'" Godzilla haikus, a Peanuts-inspired Dracula Junior, endpapers that give the raven the last word-there's something here for the kid in everyone. This gifted artist, whose clever wordplay reveals a wonderfully warped sense of comedy, has whipped up another winner.—Wendy Lukehart, Washington DC Public Library
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About this edition

• Publisher: HMH Books for Young Readers
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0152062351
• ISBN 13: 9780152062354
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 40