YOUNGER FICTION
Conford, Ellen

Diary of a Monster's Son

(4) 1-3 Illustrated by Tom Newsom. Bradley looks like a typical grade-school boy, but his father is a monster. In an underdeveloped diary format, Bradley relates their typical father-son experiences, such as shopping for school clothes and going trick-or-treating, and seems blithely unaware of other people's horrified reactions to his dad. This indirect humor is also evident in the illustrations, which show Dad's hairy paws and talon-like fingernails but never reveal his face.

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