Bright colors and the clever cutout gimmicks add visual appeal.Ī comforting lesson for kids that the things that we fear are only as large or small as we make them. “Good job! You put it in a pot! Now you can cook it with potatoes!” Cartoonishly rendered characters with big eyes, outsized jaws and teeth, and lots of personality provide the perfect blend of ferocity and silliness. The facing page exclaims, “You sent it to jail! Now lock the door with the key.” Similarly, an enormous “sea dragon” menaces a boat with a die-cut sail in one scene, but after a turn of the page, the dragon’s startled head peers out from under the lid of a simmering pot on a stovetop. Four rectangular cutouts that serve as tree trunks on recto prove to be the bars of a jail cell in which the wolf from the previous spread is imprisoned on verso, for example. On the page to be turned is a die-cut pattern. Each four-page encounter begins, on verso, with the question, “If you are afraid of this …” this is followed by the instruction to “…turn the page…” on recto. Young readers show a big bad wolf, a toothy sea serpent, a furry four-eyed monster, a vampire, and a growling ogre who’s boss in this clever board book. Zappa wrote this story for his daughter, and it overflows with genuine fatherly affection that he would like to pass on, since his father (avant-garde rocker Frank Zappa) did the same for him.įunny though the illustrations are and loving though the text is, the book falls short due to lack of nuance.Ĭhildren turn the tables on an impressive array of not- too-scary monsters in this interactive celebration of toddler empowerment imported from France. Warm moments abound, as when little monster is rolled up by her father in a blanket like a burrito or when the dad checks the closet and under the bed for monsters. The page stating, “Because I’m your dad, you can sometimes stay up late with me to watch TV” depicts the father asleep while the child sits on the sofa terrified by what is on the screen. Best Sellers Todays Deals Customer Service Music Prime New Releases Gift Ideas Books. Readers will smile at the low-key humor in the pictures. The somewhat cuddly pair is comically shown participating in their less-than-ordinary activities like “having spaghetti for breakfast, French toast for dinner, and rocky road ice cream in the bathtub.” They play with robots, listen to really loud music, burp like champions and miss school to visit New York to share a hot dog. Santat has good fun creating scenes for two hairy, horned monsters, the dad pickle green and the child a pleasing purple.
What saves this title from being just a syrupy pronouncement are the characters. Unabashed sentimentality dominates the text in this loving promise from a father to his child. They will still laugh.Īt least the red button doesn’t initiate the self-destruct sequence-though many more stories of this ilk may cause a market implosion. Has it been done in a more engaging, creative way? Yes. The urgency, desperation and dire pleas contradict a child’s natural curiosity (and perhaps the ever-tempting urge to do what is forbidden). You should give the button one little push.” With the turn of the page, Larry has turned yellow! Thus begins a familiar romp in which readers are given directions, and poor Larry gains spots and then multiplies into many other monsters. That button does look awfully tempting….He whispers in a conspiratorial tone, “Psst! No one is looking. Don’t even THINK about it.” But then Larry experiences some inner turmoil. He comes in closer and growls, “Seriously. Larry tells readers to not push the button. Red buttons almost always signal danger, but an unmarked button is also impossible to resist. He stands alone on the page, next to a single red button across the gutter. Larry is a rounded purple monster, similar to McDonald’s Grimace but with horns. If (document.There is only one rule: Don’t push the button. Bonjour, existe-t-il une version franç aise de ce livre ? Merci
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