I Love You More Than Moldy Ham

by Carey F. Armstrong-Ellis

Overview

When a young monster sets out to create a gourmet dinner for someone special, he squelches through marsh and muck to find just the right ingredients, from beetle knees to plump slugs to chicken teeth! But who is the dinner for? A surprise awaits his special loved one and readers alike!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781419716461
Publisher:	ABRAMS
Publication date:	08/04/2015
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	9.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Carey F. Armstrong-Ellis is the author and illustrator of Ten Creepy Monsters and the illustrator of the bestselling Twelve Days of Kindergarten series and The Spelling Bee Before Recess. She lives in Cape Neddick, Maine.

Editorial Reviews

07/27/2015
A furry, bulbous monster is preparing a feast—how better to show you care?—and the ingredient list offers gross-out gags aplenty as it parodies soppy, feel-good picture books: “Toenails, fungus, beetle knees,/ vulture vomit, thick headcheese./ I love you more than toadstool jam—/ more than chunks of moldy ham!” With an item missing, the monster heads out to find it, but the interlude feels tacked onto a story that is at its best when it’s reveling in the squicky details of everything that goes into the monster’s creation, a sort of blobby, translucent green cake: “Happily we sit to eat./ Dinner smells like sweaty feet!” Armstrong-Ellis (Ten Creepy Monsters) fills the pages with slime and sludge, and careful readers will even spy monster-themed parodies of works from da Vinci, Cassatt, George Rodrigue, and other artists. Ages 4–8. (Aug.)

Publishers Weekly

"This is an unconventional book about mothers and love that kids, especially boys, will cherish. Written in a narrative poetry style with colorful glossy pictures, this book offers many examples of couplets. Short passages, filled with gross humor on each page, make it an attention-grabber for early readers; rich vocabulary makes it a super silly read-aloud for older students."

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