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Wormell, Chris

The Big Ugly Monster and the Little Stone Rabbit

32 pp. | Knopf | September, 2004 | Trade ISBN 0-375-82891-5 $15.95 | Library ISBN 0-375-92891-X $17.99
(4) K-3 A monster is so ugly that he scares away real animals and causes the stone animals he carves to crack, with the exception of a stone rabbit, whom the monster grows to love. The book's pacing is off and the ending anticlimactic, but the chatty narration ("Pretty ugly, eh?") is engaging, and the illustrations convey the soulfulness under the monster's unattractive but endearing exterior.
Reviewer: Nell Beram

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