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Border, Terry

Scaredy Snacks

32 pp. | Philomel | August, 2020 | Trade ISBN 978-1-5247-4016-0 $17.99
(2) K-3 A comical picture book about--and starring--real-life snack food, with a macabre twist (à la Klassen's I Want My Hat Back, rev. 11/11). Three friends--a sprinkle-covered cookie, a cheese curl, and a pretzel stick, all pictured in Border's art "done by manipulating and photographing three-dimensional objects"--nervously approach the home of their neighbor, "Dr. ­Nuttenstein, Mad Scientist." Once inside, they witness the Dr. Frankenstein-ish doctor--a peanut with glasses, twisted-wire appendages, and a head of white hair--trying to shock life into a Nutterbutter. They get caught; they get punished; they learn a lesson; all is well...until the final page-turn reveals the doomed sprinkle cookie's fate. Jokes, puns, and sweet-and-salty characters make this a Halloween treat.
Reviewer: Elissa Gershowitz | Horn Book Magazine Issue: September, 2020

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