Romping Monsters, Stomping Monsters - Softcover

Jane Yolen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1406355208 ISBN 13: 9781406355208

Publisher: Walker Books Ltd, 2014

Synopsis

Those little monsters are back - and on the move! Jane Yolen takes her rhymes to the playground, aided by Kelly Murphy's exuberant illustrations. Stretching, twirling, tumbling, jumping! Welcome to a playground teeming with monsters, bristling with energy and conjuring up hairy ways to have fun. Monsters swing and slide and piggy-back ride. Monsters run three-legged races and fall on their faces. Monsters eat monster lollipops and tussle for the fountain (Gulp ... Grrrr ... Grumble ... Growl ... All better now!). In this high-octane sequel to Creepy Monsters, Sleepy Monsters, wild and whimsical artwork revs up a read-aloud text that will have little listeners jumping up to join in the action.

About this title

About the Author:

Jane Yolen, author of the companion book Creepy Monsters, Sleepy Monsters, has written hundreds of books for children and young adults, including the best-selling How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night? She is the editor of three children's poetry collections: Switching on the Moon, Here's a Little Poem and This Little Piggy. She divides her time between Massachusetts, USA, and St Andrews, Scotland. Kelly Murphy is the illustrator of Jane Yolen's Creepy Monsters, Sleepy Monsters. She lives in the US in Providence, Rhode Island.

From School Library Journal:

PreS-K-Yolen and Murphy are at it again. This time, their monsters engage in plenty of playground fun. Yolen's perfectly precise text, repetition, and rhyme make the story ideal for reading aloud to even the littlest monsters. These rainbow-hued beasts hopscotch, slide, and race around a park, but after eating "monster-sicles," some monsterly behavior leads to a lesson in saying "sorry." Murphy's tone-on-tone illustrations in warm greens, blues, and oranges give the creatures a fuzzy rather than menacing look. This blending of color may make the nuances of each page hard to pick out from a distance, but the technique lends itself to even more enjoyment one-on-one. Pair this title with Helen Ketteman's Goodnight, Little Monster (Marshall Cavendish, 2010) for a storytime even the wildest participants will enjoy.-Jenna Boles, Greene County Public Library, OHα(c) Copyright 2013. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

About this edition

• Publisher: Walker Books Ltd
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1406355208
• ISBN 13: 9781406355208
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 32