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Monster Party!

by Annie BACH
Monster Party! illus. by Annie Bach. 24p. Sterling. Aug. 2014. Tr $9.95. ISBN 9781454910510.
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PreS-K—Blue monster is caught up in the delight of a friend's party. Through a rhyming text, readers follow preparation, disco dancing, a pin-the-tail game, piñata, bug-topped pizza, a pink-cupcake-tower food fight, and presents. A tantrum ensues when it's time to depart, but luckily for Dad, there's another party invitation in the mailbox. As in Bach's Night-Night, Forest Friends (Penguin, 2013), dark backgrounds emphasize the cheery cartoon creatures' ice cream colors. Their square bodies gain humorous variety with unique features like beaks, wings, or horns. These little monsters demonstrate a typical preschool celebration.—Gay Lynn Van Vleck, Henrico County Library, Glen Allen, VA
"Monster invited. / Monster delighted. / Monster squeals, / SO EXCITED!" Readers follow a blue monster as he experiences all that a typical kids' birthday party holds, right down to his after-party meltdown ("Monster SHOUT!"). The illustrations of the stuffed-animal-like partiers feature cuteness, grossness (pizza with bug topping), and, almost obligatorily, underwear; only a greedy reader would ask for more.
Reviewed by Gay Lynn Van Vleck , Aug 01, 2014

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