The Monsterologist: A Memoir in Rhyme [Hardcover]

Bobbi Katz (Author), Adam McCauley (Illustrator)

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About the Author

Bobbi Katz is the author of numerous children’s books, including We the People: Poems (Greenwillow, 2000), Once around the Sun (Harcourt Children’s Books, 2006), and many others.

 

Adam McCauley has illustrated many books, including Wayside School Is Falling Down by Louis Sachar (HarperTrophy, 1990), Mom and Dad are Palindromes by Mark Shulman (Chronicle Books, 2004), Oh No, Not Ghosts! by Richard Michelson (Harcourt Children’s Books, 2006), and Jon Scieszka’s Time Warp Trio series (Viking Juvenile).

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 6 and up
  
• Hardcover: 50 pages
• Publisher: Sterling (September 1, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 140274417X
• ISBN-13: 978-1402744174
• Product Dimensions: 11.6 x 9.1 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,391,027 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A ghoulishly fascinating discovery!, August 31, 2009

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J. Patrick Lewis (Westerville, OH) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Monsterologist: A Memoir in Rhyme (Hardcover)

If you have ever wondered how Dr. Frankenstein's monster views his inventor, what the Loch Ness Monster thinks about being the mysterious center of attention, or the whys and wherefores of werewolves, trolls, ogres and other fiends, just ask THE MONSTEROLOGIST, a.k.a., Bobbi Katz. Bobbi has been rewarding children for decades with poetry at once deft and delightful, as witness her latest foray into the world of the woolly and weird. The collection includes, among other gems, a frightfully clever poem by the Verbivore in which the reader is asked to provide that most important of all the parts of speech.
Adam McCauley's illustrations, purportedly fabricated with paper, spaghetti, twigs, as well as "things found on the street," blend devilishly with the poems. Kids who are looking for a book of verse that's strikingly different--and funny!--will have to wait a long time before this imaginative tribute to monsters meets its rival.

4.0 out of 5 stars Bigger than life. Fun. Creative., October 16, 2009

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Jennifer Donovan "5minutesforbooks" (Houston, TX) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Monsterologist: A Memoir in Rhyme (Hardcover)

The Monsterologist: A Memoir in Rhyme is not quite what I expected. I'm not sure what I expected, but this oversized 50-page book begins with a poem from the monsterologist assuring the reader

"if monsters are what interest you,
the how and why of what they do,
I know the facts: What's false, what's true,
since I'm a monsterologist."

The subsequent pages feature the monster's reports (in verse of course) about various monsters he's encountered: trolls, golems, Cyclops, ghosts, the yeti, and even the suds-surfing sock-eater. It's a book that is sure to captivate the school-age child's interested in monsters, and perhaps expose him (or her) to some poetry that he might not usually read.

5.0 out of 5 stars The Katz Meow, September 15, 2009

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Robin B. Lesser - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Monsterologist: A Memoir in Rhyme (Hardcover)

What fun! The Monsterologist has joined a whole bunch of favorite books by Bobbi Katz. Her special brew of witty rhymes and witchy, twitchy imagery is irresistible, and the whimsical ghoulishness of Adam McCauley's illustrations adds perfectly fiendish seasoning. It all adds up to a deliciously diabolical dish - so dig in!