If you're a dinosaur, all of your friends are dead. If you're a pirate, all of your friends have scurvy. If you're a tree, all of your friends are end tables. Each page of this laugh-out-loud illustrated humor book showcases the downside of being everything from a clown to a cassette tape to a zombie. Cute and dark all at once, this hilarious children's book for adults teaches valuable lessons about life while exploring each cartoon character's unique grievance and wide-eyed predicament. From the sock whose only friends have gone missing to the houseplant whose friends are being slowly killed by irresponsible plant owners (like you), All My Friends Are Dead presents a delightful primer for laughing at the inevitable.
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"What a charming way to introduce wee ones to all the downers in life." - crushable.com
"Darkly comic. Funny." - Pop Candy, USA Today
"Finds humor in mortality." - Paste Magazine
"Hilariously morbid." - Laughing Squid
"Laugh out loud funny, and a tiny bit disturbing. In other words, perfect." - The Huffington Post
"One of the most reblogged things of all time (of all time!) on Tumblr." - urlesque.com
"This is a cartoon-with-captions book, about the size of your hand."--Harry C. Holloway, Psychiatry: Interpersonal and Biological Processes
"Darkly comic. Funny." - Pop Candy, USA Today
"Finds humor in mortality." - Paste Magazine
"Hilariously morbid." - Laughing Squid
"Laugh out loud funny, and a tiny bit disturbing. In other words, perfect." - The Huffington Post
"One of the most reblogged things of all time (of all time!) on Tumblr." - urlesque.com
"This is a cartoon-with-captions book, about the size of your hand."--Harry C. Holloway, Psychiatry: Interpersonal and Biological Processes
About the Author
Avery Monsen is an actor, artist, and writer.
Jory John is a writer, editor, and journalist. They are friends, and neither is dead. Yet.
Jory John is a writer, editor, and journalist. They are friends, and neither is dead. Yet.
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662 of 672 people found the following review helpful
By KT
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
Everyone who comes to my apartment and reads this book dies laughing. Now all my friends are dead.
51 of 56 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
*This* was the book that caught my eye at BEA, the massive booksellers convention highlighting upcoming new works that publishers are previewing for booksellers. After stumbling across it with three colleagues as overwhelmed as I by the choas of the show and stopping to read and laugh from cover to cover, I ended up buying copies for them all as soon as it was available. Two were given at the office, and the book quickly got passed around and read out loud, inspiring if not gales of laughter then wide smiles and happy chuckles in every single reader. I also bought a copy for myself. After retrieving it from my 18-year-old son's room where it quickly had disappeared, I left in on the kitchen table. Everyone who enters picks it up and reliably reads to the last page, because every page turn promises fresh happiness. Lots of "Oh, no!"'s and "Oh, yes!"'s in recognition of the spot-on zing in every joke. Buy a stack and keep them in your drawer to give to co-workers or friends having a mildly grumpy day; it's the perfect cure.
42 of 47 people found the following review helpful
By VMcC
Format:Hardcover
This little book is a gem of gallows humor. It's full of cute drawings, appropriately awkward pauses, and hilarious commentary. I left it on my kitchen table and now my roommate insists on reading the entire book to anyone who sets foot in the house. I highly recommend it.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
By Andy Shuping
Format:Hardcover
First of all if you're looking at getting this for a young kid...don't. This is not a kids book, unless you're looking at introducing death to them in a humorous/unusual way.
What this book is, is a short, funny, dark look at how death can come to everyone and everything...even the inanimate. Each page features a different character with a short statement about how death has impacted them, including a sock bemoaning its missing mate and a plant asking you to stop buying its friends if you're just going to kill it. Its a quick read, but it will have you laughing quickly and cheer you up on those days that you're feeling down.
What this book is, is a short, funny, dark look at how death can come to everyone and everything...even the inanimate. Each page features a different character with a short statement about how death has impacted them, including a sock bemoaning its missing mate and a plant asking you to stop buying its friends if you're just going to kill it. Its a quick read, but it will have you laughing quickly and cheer you up on those days that you're feeling down.
10 of 12 people found the following review helpful
By boomerhead
Format:Hardcover
OK, I concur fully with all the positive reviews here.
It's a short, hilarious read and one you want to make all your friends read while they still can!
But I have to address some of the complainers here:
- NO, "You could (NOT!) have written it"
The simple verse and equally simple drawings all create perfectly timed, paused and executed jokes.
- NO, "the preview is (NOT!) the best part"
I tell everyone to fight the urge to skip around the pages. Because it all builds up to a hilarious end of a running gag.
- NO, "it is (NOT!) a waste of money"
It is something to be shared with everyone you know, and is worth many times the price for all the laughs it gets!
- NO, it is NOT for everyone.
If you "floated it around to friends and family who also did not like it" - you consistently hang with people without much of a sense of (dark) humor!
It's a short, hilarious read and one you want to make all your friends read while they still can!
But I have to address some of the complainers here:
- NO, "You could (NOT!) have written it"
The simple verse and equally simple drawings all create perfectly timed, paused and executed jokes.
- NO, "the preview is (NOT!) the best part"
I tell everyone to fight the urge to skip around the pages. Because it all builds up to a hilarious end of a running gag.
- NO, "it is (NOT!) a waste of money"
It is something to be shared with everyone you know, and is worth many times the price for all the laughs it gets!
- NO, it is NOT for everyone.
If you "floated it around to friends and family who also did not like it" - you consistently hang with people without much of a sense of (dark) humor!
10 of 12 people found the following review helpful
By Effred B.
Format:Hardcover
This book fulfills my aesthetic desires (I love it on my coffee table) and makes me laugh without denying my inner-cynic. So funny--I want to spend a night making up my own pages. Makes a great gift book for someone who gets it--just add your own message: I'm glad you're not dead.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I think that some of the 1 or 2 star reviews of this book may be missing a bit of what makes this book so hilarious. And I feel that if you have to explain it, then you deflate the hilarity of the book.
It's a simple premise, many different people/things coming to the realization that they are obsolete. Thus the Dinosaur realizes that all of his friends are dead. The authors are quite clever and play on the assumptions, stereotypes and quirks of all sorts of types of people, animals and objects. It is a joke that builds with each page.
It's a simple premise, many different people/things coming to the realization that they are obsolete. Thus the Dinosaur realizes that all of his friends are dead. The authors are quite clever and play on the assumptions, stereotypes and quirks of all sorts of types of people, animals and objects. It is a joke that builds with each page.
12 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
When I read this, I laughed so hard I cried and bought it on the spot.
This book is droll humor presented in brief sentences with crude, simplistic drawings; a 5-minute must read that will keep you in stitches from page one. I loved it!
Caution: This is not the kind of book to buy for your next baby shower gift! The audience is definitely adults, especially those with a strangely developed, dark sense of humor.
This little book is sure to create laughs and conversation at your next get together.
If this is your kind of book, you might also enjoy "The Tribune Primer" by Eugene Field.
This book is droll humor presented in brief sentences with crude, simplistic drawings; a 5-minute must read that will keep you in stitches from page one. I loved it!
Caution: This is not the kind of book to buy for your next baby shower gift! The audience is definitely adults, especially those with a strangely developed, dark sense of humor.
This little book is sure to create laughs and conversation at your next get together.
If this is your kind of book, you might also enjoy "The Tribune Primer" by Eugene Field.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars
The book is pretty funny
If you have a dry sense of humor, this book is pretty funny. I bought it as a small present for my wife, and if I had to do things over, I'd buy it again.
Published 2 days ago by Jeffrey Steinberg
4.0 out of 5 stars
fun!
This is a short book - but it's really funny. I recommend it to my family and friends, and although it took a very short time to read, I keep it on my Kindle just for a quick laugh... Read more
Published 9 days ago by cfa
5.0 out of 5 stars
Freakin Adorable
Bought this for my fiance as a coffee table book after we saw this briefly one time. Love the book, super cute.
Published 12 days ago by XanderMax
5.0 out of 5 stars
Best kids book ever.
When I first read this book I couldn't stop laughing and it still gets me with every time that I read it.
Published 12 days ago by Brian Luinenburg
5.0 out of 5 stars
So darn cute and funny
Sure, the title sounds grim, but the book is just the opposite. It makes me grin with the very simple dwawings and dry wit. Read more
Published 14 days ago by G. Picou
5.0 out of 5 stars
Funny
It's a funny, clever spin put on a genre that is supposed to be for "kids". Get it, you won't be disappointed.
Published 17 days ago by Connor kindall
4.0 out of 5 stars
It's Funny.
For those who have a sad/different sense of humor, you'll enjoy it but I didn't think the length of the book was worth the cost It is a funny read though.
Published 20 days ago by Shanise Miller
5.0 out of 5 stars
Hilarious
Do you need a change up in bedtime stories? This is the book for you. Nice illustrations for the kiddos, fun storyline for the adults. A bedtime refresher.
Published 22 days ago by Sarah M McDaniel
3.0 out of 5 stars
Funny
It's not what I expected, although it was amusing. Only took a few minutes to read. I do wish it was longer.
Published 25 days ago by Jen
5.0 out of 5 stars
Hilarious Read
Just sat down a night with it for a half hour and laughed ridiculously then had friends read it and repeated the process.
Published 26 days ago by Nikomax
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