I Love You More Than Moldy Ham
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
When a young monster sets out to create a gourmet dinner for someone special, he squelches through marsh and muck to find just the right ingredients, from beetle knees to plump slugs to chicken teeth! But who is the dinner for? A surprise awaits his special loved one and readers alike!
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A furry, bulbous monster is preparing a feast how better to show you care? and the ingredient list offers gross-out gags aplenty as it parodies soppy, feel-good picture books: "Toenails, fungus, beetle knees,/ vulture vomit, thick headcheese./ I love you more than toadstool jam / more than chunks of moldy ham!" With an item missing, the monster heads out to find it, but the interlude feels tacked onto a story that is at its best when it's reveling in the squicky details of everything that goes into the monster's creation, a sort of blobby, translucent green cake: "Happily we sit to eat./ Dinner smells like sweaty feet!" Armstrong-Ellis (Ten Creepy Monsters) fills the pages with slime and sludge, and careful readers will even spy monster-themed parodies of works from da Vinci, Cassatt, George Rodrigue, and other artists. Ages 4 8.
