Grimericks

10 best books like Grimericks (Susan Pearson): Boris and Bella, The Sign of the Seahorse, Stardines Swim High Across the Sky: and Other Poems, Have I Got a Book for You!, The Dangerous Alphabet, We're Off to Find the Witch's House, The Monster Who Ate My Peas, Gris Grimly's Wicked Nursery Rhymes II, Frankenstein Takes the Cake, The Hungry Thing

AuthorCarolyn Crimi
ISBN0152059008
“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...
AuthorGraeme Base
ISBN0810981548
Graeme Base is without a doubt one of my favorite author/illustrators. His book Animalia is one of my favorite picture books of all time. I love that he (like John Lithgow and his illustrating partner C.F Payne in particular) treats his audience of young readers with respect in both his lavish illustrations...
Stardines Swim High Across the Sky: and Other Poems
AuthorJack Prelutsky
ISBN0062014641
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...
Have I Got a Book for You!
AuthorMélanie Watt
ISBN1554532892
Have I Got a Book For You! is a brightly illustrated and humorous book starring Mr. Al Foxword, "Salesman of the Month". The book plays off the stereotype of the greasy, "sly fox" salesman. Mr. Al Foxword, who is indeed a fox, will do anything and everything to get you to buy his book (the book that you are...
AuthorNeil Gaiman
ISBN0060783338
A is for Always, that's where we embark . . .

Two children, treasure map in hand, and their pet gazelle sneak past their father, out of their house, and into a world beneath the city, where monsters and pirates roam.

Will they find the treasure? Will they make it out alive?

The...
We're Off to Find the Witch's House
AuthorRichard Krieb
ISBN0142408549
It?s Halloween night, and as the moon rises, four children set off to find the witch?s house. on their way they encounter a host of silly, spooky characters, from a skittle-skattling skeleton to a shirking, lurking Dracula. Can they make it all the way to the witch?s house? or will their fears get the best...
AuthorDanny Schnitzlein
ISBN1561452165
What do you dread eating the most? For the hero of this story, it's peas, and he thinks he's discovered a solution.
"I closed my eyes tightly and sent out a wish
That the peas would somehow disappear from my dish.
And something quite strange and mysterious occurred, As if somehow... somebody......
AuthorGris Grimly
ISBN0972938834
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...
AuthorAdam Rex
ISBN0152062351
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...
AuthorJan Slepian
ISBN0439275989
One of my favorite tongue tickling, rhyme time books from childhood! The happy, but hungry monster comes to a fictitious Highlander town with a sign around his neck proclaiming: "Feed Me". The people try to feed the Hungry Thing, by asking him what he'd like to eat. And with answers such as: "Smancakes"...
AuthorMarilyn Singer
One of my favorite books of the season this year.

Some of the fun in this book is watching the kids as they tour the Museum. There is one boy that has a snarl on his face and you can tell he doesn't want to be there or anywhere and hates everything. As the tour goes on, it looks like all the children are...
AuthorKelly DiPucchio
ISBN0439584019
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...
AuthorDouglas Florian
ISBN1416986723
Seeds are sprouting, roots are spreading, and branches are swaying in this tree-mendous poetry collection. From coconut palms and bristlecone pines to baobabs and banyans, Douglas Florian explores the arboreal world with his signature wit and whimsy. Featuring a dynamic vertical format that illustrates...
AuthorMary Ann Hoberman
When you learn a poem by heart, it becomes a part of you. You know it in your mind, in your mouth, in your ears, in your whole body. And best of all, you know it forever.
From the creators of the bestselling You Read to Me, I'll Read to You series comes this new collection of poems especially suitable for...
AuthorEdgar Allan Poe
ISBN1416950257
Stories of lost love, lost ways . . . and lost minds. Gris Grimly's mysterious, morbid, and macabre illustrations capture four Poe classics with an unmatchable ghoulish charm. This second installment of illustrated Poe tales, a companion to Edgar Allan Poe's Tales of Mystery and Madness, includes...
Friends
AuthorMies van Hout
ISBN1935954237
Happy was an international hit that showed off Mies van Hout's uncanny ability to convey feelings with her vibrant illustrations.With Friends she goes one step further and shows emotional interactions. Just as she made the fish of Happy uniquely hers, here she uses monsters to show different situations--they...
The Tin Forest
AuthorHelen Ward
ISBN0525478450
In the middle of a windswept wasteland full of discarded scrap metal lives a sad and lonely old man. In spite of his gloomy surroundings, he dreams every night of a lively forest full of trees, birds, and animals. When he finds a broken light fixture that looks like a flower, his imagination is sparked....
The Halloween Kid
AuthorRhode Montijo
ISBN1416935754
From the illustrator of the Melvin Beederman, SUPERHERO series comes a story about a masked hero and his trusty steed. Together they save Halloween from ruthless toilet paper–tossing mummies and pumpkin-sucking vampires.No siree, Halloween won’t be canceled anytime soon, not while the Halloween...
Inside a House That is Haunted
AuthorAlyssa Satin Capucilli
ISBN0590997165
Poetry

Summary: This book is a rhyming book that is based on a story about a haunted house where the characters begin to interact. Each of the characters take a turn at scaring one another, but the true action begins when trick or treat starts.

Evaluation: The book is leading up to each...
Bats in the Band
AuthorBrian Lies
ISBN0544105699
The look on our faces is easy to read:
a little night music is just what we need!

A late-spring night sky fills with bats flocking to a theater, already echoing and booming with delightful sounds of music. Bat music—plunky banjoes, bat-a-tat drums, improvised instruments, country...
Pumpkin Circle: The Story of a Garden
AuthorGeorge Levenson
ISBN1582460787
We can be sure of this: It's a circle without end. It'¬?s pumpkin seeds to pumpkins To pumpkin seeds again! This treat of a picture book comes cloaked in the colors of fall. Bouncy verse and glowing photographs show a backyard pumpkin patch move through its natural cycle -- a bug'¬?s eye and a bird's high...
Cinderella Skeleton
AuthorRobert D. San Souci
ISBN0152020039
This ghoulish gal will steal your heart--just like she stole Prince Charnel's!
Poor Cinderella Skeleton! Her evil stepsisters treat her with scorn and work her from dawn till dusk. But when Prince Charnel hosts his famous Halloween Ball, Cindy finally gets her chance to shine. With the help of...
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