The Ravenous Beast

by Niamh Sharkey, Niamh Sharkey (Illustrator)

Overview

Ravenous little readers will eat up this deliciously illustrated read-aloud and be hungry, hungry, hungry for more!

The Ravenous Beast is hungry, hungry, hungry! He's so hungry he could eat a whole house. Gobble it up! Swallow it down! But all the other animals are claiming that they're the hungriest of all. What can the Ravenous Beast do to prove them wrong? Niamh Sharkey's droll, strikingly stylized illustrations lend a fanciful flair to this comical tale of beastly competition - and insatiable appetite.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781529505351
Publisher:	Walker Books Ltd
Publication date:	06/03/2021
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	11.57(w) x 10.24(h) x 0.16(d)

About the Author

Niamh Sharkey is the illustrator of many award-winning children's books. When looking for inspiration for a new picture book, she turned to her old notebooks and sketches. "I came across a 1994 painting, RAVENOUS MONSTERS, featuring hungry, hungry animals. After much playing around with the idea, THE RAVENOUS BEAST was born." Niamh Sharkey lives in Dublin, Ireland.

Editorial Reviews

The teal-and-orange "Beast" is reassuringly comic rather than scary in this brightly illustrated tale of one-upmanship. When the Beast announces he's so hungry he could eat a house, he sets off a whole claque of other animals who vie to be the hungriest. Large, informal black type and spot illustrations of the animals alternate with full-bleed oil paintings featuring the aforementioned munching; the pictures are vivid and sharp as well as funny-normally inedible items like boats, pails, and roller skates are munched into. The riotous spread following the toothily grinning Beast's assertion that he's still the most ravenous shows mouse, cat, cow, whale, dog, elephant, lion, and alligator flying in all directions. The first-person boasting, large trim size, energy of the illustrations, and imaginative premise make this a terrific read-aloud. Be sure to have plenty of snacks on hand for afterward. (Picture book. 3-6)

Kirkus Reviews