Romping monsters, stomping monsters

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Summary:

A fun-filled day at the monster playground features exuberant little monsters swinging, sliding, runing three-legged races, and sharing monster-sicles.

Physical Description:

1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 25 cm.

Genre:

Stories in rhyme.

Picture books.

Subject Term:

Monsters -- Juvenile fiction.

Publisher:

Candlewick Press,

Publication Date:

2013

ISBN:

9780763657277

Publication Information:

Somerville, MA : Candlewick Press, 2013.

Call Number:

P YOLEN

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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 scaring up ways to have fun. Monsters swing and slide and piggyback ride. Monsters run three-legged races and fall on their faces. Monsters eat monster-sicles and vie 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 the action.

Author Notes

Jane Yolen was born February 11, 1939 in New York City. She received a bachelor's degree from Smith College in 1960 and a master's degree in education from the University of Massachusetts in 1976. After college, she became an editor in New York City and wrote during her lunch break. She sold her first children's book, Pirates in Petticoats, at the age of 22. Since then, she has written over 300 books for children, young adults, and adults.

Her other works include the Emperor and the Kite, Owl Moon, How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight? and The Devil's Arithmetic. She has won numerous awards including the Kerlan Award, the Regina Medal, the Keene State Children's Literature Award, the Caldecott Medal, two Nebula Awards, two Christopher Medals, the World Fantasy Award, three Mythopoeic Fantasy Awards, the Golden Kite Award, the Jewish Book Award, the World Fantasy Association's Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Association of Jewish Libraries Award.

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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, OH (c) Copyright 2013. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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