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32 pp.
| Putnam |
August, 2008 |
TradeISBN 978-0-399-24534-3$14.99
(4)
K-3
"In the cold gray tomb / There was a gravestone / And a black lagoon" begins Rex's parody of Margaret Wise Brown's classic bedtime tale. This version features monsters under beds and headless skeletons in appropriately ghoulish digitally-colored pencil drawings. Adults who have read the original hundreds of times may enjoy this take-off, and kids will giggle at its (one-note) humor.