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Yarlett, Emma

Beast Feast

28 pp. | Kane Miller | March, 2020 | Trade ISBN 978-1-68464-005-8 $14.99
(2) PS "One very hungry day, Beast caught Dinner. Beast was ever so pleased. Dinner looked very tasty." The illustration shows a large purple-pink monster (not all that scary on the frightening scale) chasing a little curly-haired child across a rainy landscape. Generous Beast wants to share this tasty Dinner with his friends, so he sends out invitations. All four say yes (in entertainingly presented glued-in fold-out letters), but all make demands: Sir Gutguzzler wants Dinner fattened up first; Madame Gargoyle asks that Dinner be extra-salty; Giant Grimble says Dinner needs to be muddy and slimy; and Hairy Fairy demands that Dinner be served chilled. The clever child turns each demand to best advantage, making a fattening chocolate cake, taking Beast for a delightful swim in the sea, playing together in the swamp, and finally sledding in the snow. By this time, Beast has become too fond of Dinner to serve and eat; instead, the guests arrive to find a feast of all kinds of aptly delicious food, including a chocolate mud pie, salted popcorn, and ice pops. The brightly colored, scribbly illustrations capture the growing friendship between young human and monster; the recipes provided on the endpapers--eyeball sushi, slime soup--are child-pleasingly gross.
Reviewer: Martha V. Parravano | Horn Book Magazine Issue: November, 2020

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