Frankenstein Takes the Cake
10 best books like Frankenstein Takes the Cake (Adam Rex): Boris and Bella, Pablo Neruda: Poet of the People, Chloe and the Lion, Stardines Swim High Across the Sky: and Other Poems, Pish, Posh, Said Hieronymus Bosch, Even Monsters Need Haircuts, A Dignity of Dragons, A Pig Parade Is a Terrible Idea, Gris Grimly's Wicked Nursery Rhymes II, Sipping Spiders Through A Straw: Campfire Songs For Monsters
| Author | Carolyn Crimi |
| ISBN | 0152059008 |
“Boris and Bella” is a spooky Halloween book by Carolyn Crimi along with illustrations by Gris Grimly about two monsters, Boris and Bella, who are extremely different from each other as Boris is the monster who loves to be tidy while Bella is the monster who loves to be messy. When their friends ended...
Pablo Neruda: Poet of the People
Once there was a little boy named Neftalí who loved wild things wildly and quiet things quietly. From the moment he could talk, he surrounded himself with words. Neftalí discovered the magic between the pages of books. When he was sixteen, he began publishing his poems as Pablo Neruda.
Pablo...
| Author | Mac Barnett |
| ISBN | 1423113349 |
Meet Chloe: Every week, she collects loose change so she can buy tickets to ride the merry-go-round. But one fateful day, she gets lost in the woods on her way home, and a large dragon leaps out from-"Wait! It's supposed to be a lion," says Mac Barnett, the author of this book. But Adam Rex, the illustrator,...
Stardines Swim High Across the Sky: and Other Poems
| Author | Jack Prelutsky |
| ISBN | 0062014641 |
The poet, author, and indomitable naturalist Jack Prelutsky, having returned safely from far-flung places with an extensive collection of unique creatures that are a blending of the animate and inanimate, has worked in close collaboration with the fine artist Carin Berger, who herself conducted...
Pish, Posh, Said Hieronymus Bosch
| Author | Nancy Willard |
| ISBN | 0152622101 |
Here is an imaginative tale about the unconventional fifteenth-century Flemish painter Hieronymus Bosch, as told by his wildly dissatisfied housekeeper. Caldecott Medalists Leo and Diane Dillon and their son, Lee, depict a most unusual household filled with pickle-winged fish, flying furniture,...
Even Monsters Need Haircuts
Just before midnight, on the night of a full moon, a young barber stays out past his bedtime to go to work. Although his customers are mostly regulars, they are anything but normal-after all, even monsters need haircuts. Business is steady all night, and this barber is prepared for anything with his scissors,...
| Author | Jacqueline K. Ogburn |
| ISBN | 0618862544 |
To catch a glimpse of one unicorn is lucky;
to see a grace of unicorns is to witness a marvel.
In this book, you will also find . . .
a riddle of sphinx,
a splash of mermaids,
a dignity of dragons,
and more.
With inventive groupings, luminous artwork, and a fact-filled...
A Pig Parade Is a Terrible Idea
| Author | Michael Ian Black |
| ISBN | 1416979220 |
A Pig Parade Is a Terrible Idea is brilliant.
1. The art is funny.
2. It suggests that you say "pig parade," which is fun to say.
3. The arguments presented in it are rhetorically sound. (I want to use this book with my writing students.)
4. It has marching band-like things in it.
5....
| Author | Gris Grimly |
| ISBN | 0972938834 |
This entertaining collection unveils eight allnew, fiendishly illustrated cautionary tales exploring the dark underbelly of childhood. Childhood standards, including Little Jack Horner, Solomon Grundy and Three Blind Mice, are retold as dark and sinister rhymes about atrociouslymannered...
| Author | Kelly DiPucchio |
| ISBN | 0439584019 |
A delightfully chilling musical romp through the gross and gory world of campfire songs!
In this howlishly fun collection of campfire songs, little monsters everywhere will love singing along to their favorite campfire tunes which have been altered for optimal gross-out effect by the ghoulish...
| Author | Marilyn Singer |
| ISBN | 0803737696 |
Once upon a time, Mirror Mirror, a brilliant book of fairy tale themed reversos - a poetic form in which the poem is presented forward and then backward – became a smashing success. Now a second book is here with more witty double takes on well-loved fairy tales such as Thumbelina and The Little Mermaid.
Read...
| Author | J. Patrick Lewis |
| ISBN | 0547513380 |
Is this poetry? Math? A brainteaser? Yes! It’s all that and more. The poet J. Patrick Lewis
has reimagined classic poems—such as Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” and Langston
Hughes’s “April Rain Song”—and added a dash of math. Between the silly parodies
and the wonderfully...
| Author | Jon Agee |
| ISBN | 1423103157 |
Have you ever gotten tripped up trying to say a silly succession of similar syllables? Of course-everyone has!It can be sometimes frustrating, but it's always funny! For example, you know New York's unique, but did you know that unique New York's also pretty chic? And if you switched your wristwatch...
| Author | Douglas Florian |
| ISBN | 1442413212 |
Arrrgh you ready for this jaunty collection of pirate poems and paintings?
Ahoy mateys—it’s time to hoist up the anchors and set sail with a pack of pesky pirates! In this hilarious collection of nineteen poems, readers will meet scoundrels, scalawags, and scurvy dogs (human and canine)....
What Can a Crane Pick Up?
| Author | Rebecca Kai Dotlich |
What can a crane pick up . . . a truck?
Yes, a truck! And a truck . . . And a truck . . .
And a railroad car, if it gets stuck.
A truck, a train,
a car, a plane
can all be lifted with a crane."
From poet Rebecca Kai Dotlich and artist Mike Lowery comes a rollicking picture book about cranes--the...
| Author | Ross Collins |
| ISBN | 0061355348 |
The Pires are cursed with new neighbors. Things were just fine on Nostfer Avenue until the Wolfsons arrived. There seems to be no end to the new family's strange rituals. They stay up all day long, lock their windows at night, and bathe—in sunshine. What's a nice vampire family to do?
Ross Collins...
| Author | Rick Walton |
| ISBN | 0312553668 |
A 'Madeline' parody done so well. I love the story of Madeline and I love Halloween so this is a mix perfect for me. I can't decide if this is meant more for adults and people who know the story of Madeline or if this is meant for kids too. It is very well done and funny.
Rick Walton captures the essence...
GUYKU: A Year of Haiku for Boys
| Author | Bob Raczka |
| ISBN | 0547240031 |
The wind and I play
tug-of-war with my new kite.
The wind is winning.
When you’re a guy, nature is one big playground—no matter what the season. There are puddles to splash in the spring, pine trees to climb in the summer, maple seeds to catch in the fall, and icicles to swordfight...
| Author | Cambria Evans |
| ISBN | 0618809082 |
Known across the land for his infamous appetite, Finnigin is never seen without his eating stool, his eating spoon, and his gigantic eating mouth.
When Finnigin finds himself in a new town on Halloween, he hopes to join a great feast with the creatures who live there. But not a body or soul will share...
| Author | Peter Brown |
| ISBN | 0316011800 |
Chowder is a story about a quirky bulldog looking for friends. Chowder is a bit odd and treated like a baby by his owners so he has a hard time fitting in with the local packs. Chowder notices that there is a new petting zoo at the local super market and when he gets there he tries to become friends with the animals....
11 Experiments That Failed
| Author | Jenny Offill |
| ISBN | 0375847626 |
"This is a most joyful and clever whimsy, the kind that lightens the heart and puts a shine on the day," raved Kirkus Reviews in a starred review.
Is it possible to eat snowballs doused in ketchup—and nothing else—all winter? Can a washing machine wash dishes? By reading the step-by-step...
Bon Appetit! The Delicious Life of Julia Child
| Author | Jessie Hartland |
| ISBN | 0375869441 |
In a starred review, Publishers Weekly raves, "Chef and TV personality Julia Child likely would have delighted in and hooted over this wide-ranging picture-book biography.... Readers young and old will devour this fete pour les yeux."
Follow Julia Child—chef, author, and television...
