This Book Is Full of Monsters

by Guido van Genechten

Overview

This is a book full of monsters: small, smelly, yelling, creepy… monsters! So it’s a book for hard core monster lovers, but also for beginners in monsterology. With shock effects! Try it yourself! Softies keep out! Conquer your deepest fears! Tremble and shiver with pleasure! Are you scared already? No? Just you wait and see….

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781605373607
Publisher:	Clavis
Publication date:	08/15/2017
Pages:	32
Sales rank:	845,969
Product dimensions:	9.40(w) x 11.40(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Guido van Genechten (1957, Belgium) studied drawing and painting, graphics and photography. Afterwards he worked for many years in the graphic industry. Now Guido works as a fulltime illustrator of children’s books.
In 1998 he won the international Illustrator’s Award City of Hasselt with his picture book Ricky. This prize was the beginning of his international career as a children’s book illustrator.

Since that moment, Guido van Genechten has created many best-selling stories and received several awards. In 2007 he was the winner of the Reader’s Digest Award for Best Children’s Book Illustrator. And in the past ten years his books were published in 30 countries around the world.

Editorial Reviews

06/26/2017
This metafictional guide to monsters dares readers to keep turning the pages: “Are you really sure? Because you can still turn back,” read tattered street signs on the opening endpapers. Throughout, van Genechten (the Little White Fish series) serves as a monster guide, cautioning readers about the peculiarities and dangers of each creature. “No! Don’t touch it! That tail is poisonous!” he warns as a goofy-looking pink and green monster hikes across a forest at night, carrying its long, bumpy tail. Most of the monsters look more dopey than fearsome (and, oddly, none are given names), but the final few pages may provoke some light fright among readers as they discover a hoglike monster locked in a darkened cage and are invited to turn on the lights and let it out, only to have it leap toward them in the closing pop-up scene. Ages 4–up. (Aug.)

Publishers Weekly

"Children will absolutely love this book of monsters. The illustrations are definitely colorfully eye-catching, and really draw the reader/audience into the story about monsters and how scary they can be. Children will love the story daring/challenging them to turn the page while providing the opportunity for children/audiences to stop reading this book. The book is full of surprises on every page. It is a wonderful book for Halloween time and.or celebrating Monster Day in school or at birthday parties." - ITEEA

"Not just for Halloween, but fun for any time of year, you'll be immersed in the sink, loud, interactive world of monster-kind. Favorite of 2017." --- Imagination Soup

"Positively ideal for Halloween storytimes, actually. Put this one in your holster." -- Elizabeth Bird, Fuse Eight blog, SLJ.com

“Great...if your little one can handle friendly (but rather icky) monsters, then look for “This Book is Full of Monsters” by Guido Van Genechten, an interactive book with pop-outs.” — Terri Schlichenmeyer, The Bookworm, nationally syndicated newspaper column

"Kids ages 4 and up who are a little more scary-savvy will enjoy Guido Van Genechten’s latest, full of “small, disgusting, shrieking, super scary monsters!” — Lee Littlewood, Kids Home Library, nationally syndicated newspaper column

"This metafictional guide to monsters dares readers to keep turning the pages..." -- Publishers Weekly

"A cute and quick read that lets children explore their courageous sides." - Kate Fais, New York Public Library

“For hard core monster lovers, but also beginners in monsterology!” - Children’s and Teen Book Connections

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