Hungry Monster ABC: An Alphabet Book [Hardcover]

Susan Heyboer O'Keefe (Author), Lynn Munsinger (Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1, 2007 | Grade Level: P and up

Watch out! The 10 naughty visitors from the popular One Hungry Monster counting book have escaped. When they sneak into school, will they sit quietly at their desks to study? Not a chance! As a young boy tries to teach his unusual classmates (and keep himself out of trouble), the alphabet comes to life in a mischievously monstrous way.

Editorial Reviews

From School Library Journal

Kindergarten-Grade 2—When the creatures from One Hungry Monster (Little, Brown, 1989) visit a boy's classroom, he attempts to teach them the alphabet using school words like "apple," "book," and "crayon." But the monsters make a mess of everything, piling up the books so they can draw on the ceiling with the crayons. Things go downhill from there as the furry critters continue to cause mayhem, gulping down their sloppy sandwiches ("L is always lunchtime"), having a pillow fight ("R should be for rest time"), and chasing the teacher ("T is for Ms. Tubbins"). The narrator is at a loss for X, Y, and Z words—until his visitors call their friends X-Ray man, a yeti, and a zombie. The rhyming story ends rather abruptly with the monsters and the protagonist escaping through a window, but Ms. Tubbins grabs the boy's shoe and hauls him back in. Munsinger's watercolor-and-ink illustrations are reliably funny, and kids will giggle at the sight of the put-upon youngster trying to wrangle the monsters into order. The alphabet concept is almost secondary to the creatures' antics, though the entry and picture for W are priceless: "'W's for Wiffle ball./(In gym they'll show you how.)'/But Wiffles aren't waffles./The monsters know that now." A set of removable alphabet flashcards featuring the characters is included.—Kathleen Kelly MacMillan, Carroll County Public Library, MD
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About the Author

Susan O'Keefe is the author of many children's books, including Love Me, Love You and Goodnight, God Bless. She lives in Edgewater, New Jersey.

Lynn Munsinger has illustrated numerous popular books for children, including One Hungry Monster and Ogden Nash's The Tale of Custard the Dragon and Custard the Dragon and the Wicked Knight. She resides in Boston.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 32 pages
• Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers (June 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0316155748
• ISBN-13: 978-0316155748
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 0.4 x 10.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #990,751 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Coming this October is Susan Heyboer O'Keefe's adult debut novel, FRANKENSTEIN'S MONSTER, a tale of violence, passion, revenge, and redemption that continues the dark story of Mary Shelley's creature. Susan's first title was the bouncy, best-selling counting book ONE HUNGRY MONSTER. Sandwiched between these two very different books are twenty years of bunnies, eggplants, cemeteries, nuns, mysteries, comedies -- and more monsters.

A lifelong resident of New Jersey, Susan grew up in a town so small that not even people in the next town over had heard of it. (Amazing but true.) She now lives in another small town, which a visitor from Manhattan once described as the "end of the world." Since you might be eaten by bears trying to find it, she recommends that you visit her at her bear-free website at www.susanheyboerokeefe.com.

Customer Reviews

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2.0 out of 5 stars Too Small, September 28, 2010

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FroggyMama (Kansas, USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Hungry Monster ABC: An Alphabet Book (Board book)

Received this book, and promptly returned it. The format is entirely too small to appreciate the amazing illustrations, let alone even read the text half the time. If you want this book, find a good used copy that is much bigger. Otherwise, you're wasting your money.

5.0 out of 5 stars Kids loved it!, December 30, 2009

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my kids absolutely love this book. They think it is so funny and it keeps their attention!

2.0 out of 5 stars one hungry monster, September 11, 2009

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Matthew Dielman (KY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hungry Monster ABC: An Alphabet Book (Hardcover)

This is the book I remember from when my kids were small 12 years ago but it leaves out the section of the book where the boy gets upset about the mess the monsters made and tells them to get out. I guess it wasn't politically correct. I have looked other places but have not yet found the complete story. The book itself was good quality just missing part.