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Monster Chefs
Yeah, yeah, I'm a jerk for not loving a book co-written by a five-year-old. Heard it all before.The thing is, this starts out really well: "The king happened to be a horribly horrible monster, which made him an excellent king" Wonderful beginning!
The ending involved eyeballs so is obviously also delightful.
It's the middle that tripped my things up.
I understand why there is repetition but I would have liked different answers from the different delectables encountered and I got bored and barely even looked at those parts. This is a kid's book and I couldn't be bothered to read the middle because it bored me? Dude, that's really bad.
Personally, I would have liked the illustrations to have been darker. Not scarier but darker. There's so much white space, light colors and, to me, a horribly horrible monster king would have more gray, more shadows, more...dark all around. I also bemoaned the lack of detail; I imagined what this would have looked like had it been a [a:Mercer Mayer|692|Mercer Mayer|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/authors/1245185581p2/692.jpg] book: way more fun and interesting.
It's like grown-ups are scared of pictures of monsters scaring the little children. That is what pictures of monsters ARE FOR. I swear, if the current generation grows up to be unimaginative and boring? Oh, I don't know what I'll do. Move to some other place where kids are allowed to be safely scared witless, I guess.
Back to the book. It's a fun idea that tumbles into an ok story with ok pictures. Everyone who likes to feed their children happy funtime, scary-lite stories will love it.