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32 pp.
| Holiday |
September, 2007 |
TradeISBN 978-0-8234-1963-0$16.95
(4)
K-3
Illustrated by
Ethan Long.
A rhyming text describes the monsters who patronize the title café, as discovered by the wide-eyed narrator and his dog. Silly-scary digitally colored ink-pen illustrations add humor to the grossness ("flesh wound on toast," anyone?). Each page's text ends with the name of the café (some rhymes more forced than others), and story-hour audiences will be eager to chime in.