Customer Reviews

Monday's Troll

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This book was wonderful, my kids loved it. The poems are wonderfully clever and smart, and the pictures are great. Even my 4 year old loved it. I highly recommend it for all ages!

What an awesome book. Picked it up in a thrift store because I thought the art was kinda cool. The poems are a helluvalotta fun, particularly if you dig witches, trolls, wizards, gnomes, ogres, yetis, and other ghouly guys. The cadence and attitude of the poetry reminds me a bit of Shel Silverstein.

The vocabulary rocks:
"I'm Blizzard, a wizard of wretched endeavor,
My whims are my own, and I do as I choose.
I trifle with humans for simple amusement,
I plague them with hiccups while shrinking their shoes."

and this one:
"I escalated my harangue, and blared triumphantly,
'your prestidigitation simply can't bamboozle me!'"

My 3-yr-old probably doesn't understand much of the specifics but she asks for it over and over anyway!

This is a perfect book for Gramps to read to visiting grandkids (I did get permission from the parents). It not only entertains children but is enjoyable for adult readers as well. Plus it allows for lots of discussion about invented, imaginary monsters like trolls and ogres. A further plus is that the book if chuck-full of new words that 6 year olds will want to understand. If you are looking forward to reading to a visiting 6+ year old and are looking for something that would be fun, Awful Ogre and Monday's Troll, both by Jack Prelutsky, simply cannot be beat.

Not what we expected, a few were good. Most could not hold my toddlers attention, & he loves me to read to him. We have other titles by Jack Prelutsky that he adores, this one will stay on the shelf or be given away.