Eat Pete
by Michael Rex (Author) Michael Rex (Illustrator)
From the creator of Goodnight Goon, a laugh-out-loud friendship story that perfectly captures the high and low moments of a typical playdate!
Pete couldn't be more thrilled when a monster shows up in his bedroom. Now Pete has someone to play with! And the hungry monster couldn't be more thrilled to be there, either. Now he can . . . eat Pete! But Pete has other ideas. And they are all good fun and quite distracting--things like playing cars and pirates. Well, we all know the course of playing together nicely never did run smoothly. So how much longer will the monster have to wait before he can . . . eat Pete?
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Kirkus
A silly and surprising picture book that will quickly join regular rotation.
Publishers Weekly
The hairy, snaggletoothed, horned monster who appears at Pete's window isn't some misunderstood creature in search of a friend, the kind of character that's a fixture in so many children's books. Nope, this monster has one goal in mind: "EAT PETE!" Pete doesn't know that, though, and after greeting the monster as a new playmate, he comes up with lots of ways for the two to have fun. In fact, the monster has such a good time--racing and crashing toy cars, building with blocks, and playing pirates (the monster must walk the plank, and his expression of high melodrama is worthy of classic Hollywood)--that, while he gets dreamy-eyed and drools at the thought of eating Pete, he's able to delay gratification, at least for a little while. The story ends more conventionally than it begins: the monster apologizes; the two friends hug it out. But readers should enjoy this clever tale from Rex (Goodnight Goon) about impulse control and its surprisingly sympathetic monster. Ages 2-5. (Aug.)
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JUV019000 - Juvenile Fiction | Humorous Stories
JUV052000 - Juvenile Fiction | Monsters
JUVENILE FICTION / Social Issues / Friendship
Monsters
JUVENILE FICTION / Humorous Stories
JUVENILE FICTION / Monsters
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