From School Library Journal
Kindergarten-Grade 4–Ignoring his family's warnings that his ruckus will "wake the dead," Henry persists in making a hullabaloo. Sure enough, the numerous but decidedly unscary corpses, adorned with pink lace collars, mufflers, and psychedelic pants, struggle out of their graves. Holding their heads where their ears used to be, the skeletons set off to search for the source of the din. They pass the beauty salon ("Oh, honey, you look like death warmed over!"), the post office ("If you're looking for the dead-letter office…"), and City Hall ("…all they found were skeletons in the closet"). When they finally converge on Henry, he guesses "from their deadpan expressions that they had a bone to pick with him." The boy tries to find a way to lay them to rest before his family skins him alive, and most of his ideas are as funny–and pun-filled–as they are futile. In desperation, he reads them a bedtime story, "Goodnight Goon." This amusing story is packed with bone-dry, fiendishly witty wordplays. Done in ink and watercolor, Kwas's eye-catching illustrations are droll, intriguing, and saturated with visual jokes. Don't save this silly tale for Halloween; readers will die laughing any time of year.
–Susan Weitz, Spencer-Van Etten Schools, Spencer, NY Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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About the Author
Monica A. Harris learned the phrase “loud enough to wake the dead” from her grandma who, for some strange reason, said it quite often. She is a creative writing instructor, and the author of seven published books, but this is her first picture book. Ms. Harris lives with her husband and two daughters in Portage, Michigan, where she enjoys reading, rock climbing, hiking, and strolling through cemeteries (seriously).
Susan Estelle Kwas is the illustrator of five books for children. When she’s not drawing she likes to bind books, see lots of movies, and hang around with friends who tell goofy stories. She lives with her husband and her angry cat in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, near a lake so big that you can’t see the other side.
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