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Peck, Richard

Monster Night at Grandma's House

32 pp. | Dial | August, 2003 | Trade ISBN 0-8037-2904-9 $$12.99
1977, Viking
(4) K-3 Illustrated by Don Freeman. Peck's only picture book is reissued with a new introduction (which may interest adults; kids--the ostensible audience for this volume--won't give a fig). The archetypal story--a young boy visiting his grandmother is afraid that monsters lurk in the darkness of the room he's sleeping in--is enhanced by Freeman's atmospheric scratchboard illustrations, but the text is overlong.
Reviewer: Peter D. Sieruta

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