Spider Sandwiches

by Claire Freedman, Sue Hendra (Illustrator)

Overview

Come and eat with Max,
he has a MONSTER appetite.
He eats such yucky, mucky food,
his mealtimes are a fright.

From fish-eye cheese and bug burgers to snail trail sauce and cockroach curry, Max will feast on anything crawly, creepy, hairy and sticky. But his favorite snack has to be Spider Sandwiches! Kids will laugh out loud at Max's monstrous mealtimes and terrible tastes in this silly, funny, gloopy, gunky picture book from bestselling author Claire Freedman and illustrator Sue Hendra.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781619633643
Publisher:	Bloomsbury USA
Publication date:	07/15/2014
Pages:	32
Sales rank:	683,928
Product dimensions:	10.20(w) x 10.10(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Claire Freedman is the bestselling author of the Aliens Love Underpants series, which has sold over 1.5 million copies worldwide. Spider Sandwiches is her first picture book for Bloomsbury. She lives in Essex, England.
www.clairefreedman.co.uk
@clairefreedman

Sue Hendra is the creator of several bestselling picture books including Barry the Fish with Fingers and Norman the Slug with the Silly Shell. Her picture book series Wanda and the Alien will appear as an animated series on Milkshake in 2013/14. Sue lives in Brighton, England.
www.suehendra.com

Editorial Reviews

A humorous introduction to eating habits and preferences.” —School Library Journal

From the Publisher

2014-06-04
Freedman climbs aboard an already overcrowded bandwagon with this catalog of gross-out goodies in Max the monster’s larder.With characteristic disregard for exact rhymes or rhythm, the author lays out arrays of stomach-churning delicacies, from the titular sandwiches to “toenail scrambled eggs” and pickled worms: “He LOVES to glug slug milkshakes, / through a stinky hosepipe straw. / And as for beetle cookies— / he can ALWAYS munch one more!” In illustrations teeming with creepy crawlies, unidentifiable globs and grocery items like “Mice Krispies,” Max, a hairball tinted yellow-green and equipped with bicycle-horn ears, chows down with googly-eyed exuberance—until a final dish of Brussels sprouts sends him (as it does so many readers) shrieking from the room.No more than a side dish next to the appetite-killing courses dished out by Shel Silverstein, by Adam Rex in Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich (2006) and by so many others. (Picture book. 6-8)

Kirkus Reviews