Charles Wilkie is charged by the town fathers to perk the creature up he unwittingly brings along plucky newsboy orphan Tim. Worst of all, he knows it, so his days are spent wallowing in self-pity. Best of all, a good monster will guard a town from a threat known only as The Murk. Much of the time they're terrorizing the citizenry, and as everyone knows that's just good for business (tourists love to be terrified). There's nothing here YOU won't love.Įvery good town has a good monster. There is nothing here your children won't love. So it is with great rejoicing and the throwing of small pieces of confetti that I welcome to my shelves the fast, funny, not so furious Monster on the Hill by Rob Harrell. Thanks to Giants Beware! by Jorge Aguirre, Sidekicks by Dan Santat, and Jellaby by Kean Soo I've managed to feed their hunger, but nothing's ever been enough. You want kid-friendly fare that's adventurous AND funny? And full-color? Uh. If Scholastic hadn't rereleased Jeff Smith's classic series in full color editions and marketed them to kids, we wouldn't have had to face wave upon wave of impressionable children holding up their worn and battered editions saying, "Do you have anything like this?" Because crazy as it might sound, the answer is usually no. See, people? *shakes book in the air* How hard is this, really? I stand beside thousands of children's librarians who have, for years now, been in a bit of a pickle with the kiddos when it comes to great graphic novels.
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