The story alternates between Alfred’s monster stories and tea time, letting you switch voices back and forth to get your readers squealing with monstrous delight. Baby goths and kids who love monsters will get a kick out of this story, which has a lovely Victorian vibe going for it, with bold, black lines and brown and black artwork, occasionally punched up with washed out greens, pinks, yellows, and blues for effect. Have Neil Gaiman or Lemony Snicket fans? Do you have storytime kids who giggle time and again at I Want My Hat Back? Do you just want a fun Halloween read in your back pocket? This is the book for you and your readers. This is the picture book for the kids who enjoy a good, morbidly amusing story. Alfred decides to invite the monsters he reads about: the Nixie, the Black Shuck, and the Lantern Man, to tea time when they take him up on the invitation, they have a fabulously terrible time! Poor Aunty never knew what hit her. Aunty thinks monsters are dreadful, and constantly interrupts Alfred’s precious reading time by calling him to tea. 2019, Charlesbridge), $15.99, ISBN: 9781580898331Īlfred is a little boy who loves monsters, not boring old tea times.
Two fun picture books are coming up in August and September! If you’re looking for books for your late Summer/early Fall shopping carts, give these a spin.Īlfred’s Book of Monsters, by Sam Streed, (Aug.
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