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Wolff, Patricia Rae

Cackle Cook's Monster Stew

32 pp. | Golden | August, 2001 | Trade ISBN 0-307-10682-9 $$9.95
(3) K-3 Illustrated by S. D. Schindler. Cackle Cook, preparing her Monster Stew, keeps sending the unwilling Igor out for missing ingredients: "An ancient ape's short armpit hair / A half-inch square of big brown bear...." Casual rhymes fit well with the story's smooth pace, and the items Igor retrieves happen to be in alphabetical order--but read this for the clever reversal at the end and Schindler's inventive, comically horrific art.
Reviewer: Anita L. Burkam

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