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Sipping Spiders Through a Straw: Campfire Songs for Monsters
32 pp.
| Scholastic |
May, 2008 |
TradeISBN 978-0-439-58401-2$15.99
(3)
K-3
Illustrated by
Gris Grimly.
This book of eighteen clever song parodies captures exactly the type of thing kids might come up with on their own. Grisly watercolor and mixed-media illustrations awash in appropriately putrid shades of brown and gray will definitely appeal to its target readers: those with a ghoulish sense of humor who are not easily grossed out by disgusting monsters or bodily fluids.