Snack Attack!

by Terry Border, Terry Border (Illustrator)

Overview

From the creator of the popular world of Peanut Butter & Cupcake! comes a wry and witty story in which no snack is safe from the monster that is the Kid. Perfect for fans of Creepy Carrots and A Creepy Pair of Underwear.

They had been warned of the dangers that lurked outside of their packages, but they didn't care. These three snacks were on a mission to have some fun, and no Monster Kids could stop them. The world of the kitchen belonged to Cookie, Pretzel, and Cheese Doodle--or so they thought.

But when the three treats find a chilling note from Mom, they know it's time to come up with a plan to save themselves from the horrifying threat of the Kid. What should a smart Cookie and her friends do?

Terry Border creates a brand-new, deliciously eerie masterpiece in which the kitchen tables are turned, and after-school snacks become the heroes of a sweet and salty story of survival.

Praise for Snack Attack:

"This comedic horror-lite story about snacks is just delectable, and offers an avenue of connection between the generations." --SLJ

"Satisfyingly silly." --Kirkus Reviews

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781524740078
Publisher:	Penguin Young Readers Group
Publication date:	09/03/2019
Sold by:	Penguin Group
Format:	eBook
Pages:	32
Lexile:	520L (what's this?)
File size:	12 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	3 - 7 Years

About the Author

Terry Border is the author of Peanut Butter & Cupcake; Happy Birthday, Cupcake!; and Milk Goes to School. He is also the mastermind behind the Bent Objects project, which has been lauded in media all over the world, spawning books, calendars, greeting cards, and puzzles. He lives with his family in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Editorial Reviews

Praise for Snack Attack:

"This comedic horror-lite story about snacks is just delectable, and offers an avenue of connection between the generations." —SLJ

"Satisfyingly silly." —Kirkus Reviews

From the Publisher

2019-05-26
The snacks are under attack!

Border's photography anthropomorphizes a pink sugar wafer, a pretzel, and a cheese doodle—not with facial features but with limbs and spectacles made of bent wire. The three sentient foodstuffs escape from their respective packaging and encounter a note left for a child ("a kind of monster," explains Cookie) reading, in part: "I left you some snacks because I'll be late. Love Mom." Alarmed, the trio tries to figure out how to avoid such fates as being dipped in milk, snapped in two, or gulped. Border's photographic scenes humorously depict each calamitous scenario in a kitchen setting scaled like that of Chris Van Allsburg's Two Bad Ants (1988). While the pretzel thinks it makes itself sufficiently unappetizing by rolling around on the floor for six seconds, Cookie says the five-second rule "only works with Monster Moms. Not Monster Kids." Hiding in a cheese grater causes minor injury, prompting Cheese Doodle to say, "I don't feel greater….It's really a cheese worser!" That's just one instance of wordplay in the silly story, which culminates with the snacks forging a different note for the child: "DEAR KID, Please drink some water and eat NOTHING ELSE. From your loving Momma." When the kid returns home, it initially seems the trick works, but a twist ending suggests that's not the way the cookie crumbles.

Satisfyingly silly. (Picture book. 4-7)

Kirkus Reviews