Monsters Don't Eat Broccoli
by
Barbara Jean Hicks & Sue Hendra
Order:
USA
Can
Knopf, 2009 (2009)
Hardcover
Reviewed by Hilary Williamson
D
o you have picky eaters in your family? I sure did and would have loved to share
Monsters Don't Eat Broccoli
with my two sons when they were young and resisting their veggies.
B
arbara Jean Hicks tells her story in verse, her messages reinforced by Sue Hendra's exaggerated illustrations of assorted monsters dining out. It begins, '
The waitress in this restaurant / just doesn't have a clue. / Monsters don't eat broccoli! / How could she think we do?
'
T
he imaginative narrator continues to tell readers what monsters
do
like to snack on -
tractors
,
rocket ships
, '
fish 'n ships
', '
tender trailer tidbits / or a wheely, steely stew
' - and what they assiduously avoid (like '
slimy lima beans
').
B
ut though
Monsters Don't Eat Broccoli
, it turns out that they do find '
crunchy, munchy TREES
' quite delicious, and worthy of '
Another helping, please.
' Read this engaging picture book with your own little monster, as you snack on a few '
giant maples
' on the side.
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