
You Might be a Monster
& Other Stories I Made Up!
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July 18, 2011
Artist and toy designer Attaboy pairs flippant humor with page-popping digital cartoons in this collection of monster-themed poems. A pink, fang-toothed rabbit at a podium boasts, "I'm a legendary number-counter,/ made famous for my smarti-tood," while zombie clowns "crawl out from crusty earth" to celebrate children's birthdays. In the title poem, written in couplets and making up half the book's length, young Gustav Delite tries to prove that he's a monster and not just "a rude kid whose manners have failed." Readers should be drawn toward the subversive, macabre tone and lurid, Cartoon-Network-on-acid illustrations, but long narrative passages drag and some rhymes feel forced, making this debut a mixed bag. Ages 4â8.

October 1, 2011
Gr 2-5-This mix of comedy and horror is also a mix of hits and misses. Purportedly written by a "Worm Named Attaboy," it includes 11 stories in verse form, accompanied by lots of bright digital cartoons set on glossy black pages. "Hug a Cactus" has the type of humor many kids enjoy: "I'm stuck on you forever/and no one can tear us apart." Unfortunately, though, too much of the writing lacks a sure sense of rhythm. Here's an example from "Clown Graveyard": "They'll bake you a fresh skull cake/and pile into a tiny hearse, /repeating the same lame jokes/forever is their eternal curse." Some of the pictures will engage kids who enjoy mildly gross humor, and it is fun seeing the worm/author popping up here and there. But the busy pages sometimes look cluttered and lack focus. For a more coherent and clever book like this, try Adam Rex's Frankenstein Takes the Cake (Harcourt, 2008).-Lauralyn Persson, Wilmette Public Library, IL
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