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Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich
by
Adam Rex (Goodreads Author)
Being a monsterisn't all frightening villagers and sucking blood.Monsters have their trials, too. Poor Frankenstein's cupboard is bare, Wolfman is in need of some household help, and it's best not to get started on Dracula’s hygiene issues. What could be scarier?
Nineteen hilarious poems delve into the secret lives of the Creature from the Black Lagoon, Bigfoot, Godzilla, a...more
Nineteen hilarious poems delve into the secret lives of the Creature from the Black Lagoon, Bigfoot, Godzilla, a...more
Hardcover, 40 pages
Published
September 1st 2006
by Harcourt Children's Books
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Feb 03, 2010
Ceridwen
rated it
4 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
Ungggh! Fire bad!
Recommended to Ceridwen by:
Chandra
My kids hate it when I sing. This is cosmic retribution for enforcing a hard-line "No Singing at the Table" rule growing up. (Hi Mum! Hi Morwenna! No hard feelings! j/k, lol, etc.) In retrospect, I have no idea why I was such a freak about singing during dinner, but I was, and there's no undoing it. So now, every time I break into song, which given my bone-deep hatred for all musicals & general disinterest in popular music, is surprisingly often, my kids order me to stop. The girl screams li...more
Oct 10, 2011
Dolly
rated it
4 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
parents reading with their older children
Shelves:
2011,
childrens,
egyptian,
france-french,
monsters,
poetry-song-music,
rhyming,
humor,
picture-book-club
This book was featured as one of the selections for the October 2011 Witches and Monsters-themed reads for the Picture-Book Club in the Children's Books Group here at Goodreads. I'm so glad it was - we laughed our way through this book and had so much fun singing the ditties.
We just visited Disney World last week and avoided the "It's a Small World" ride, since we'd done that one before. The girls didn't really remember it, so I sang it over and over again to show them how truly saccharine and...more
We just visited Disney World last week and avoided the "It's a Small World" ride, since we'd done that one before. The girls didn't really remember it, so I sang it over and over again to show them how truly saccharine and...more
Oct 20, 2008
Lara's
rated it
5 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
Parents and children 5-8 yrs.
Recommended to Lara's by:
Jessalynn (Thank you!)
Shelves:
picture-books
Synopsis
: You think you've got problems? Dracula, Wolfman, Bigfoot...now they have problems! How'd you like to be the invisible man trying to get a haircut? Do you want to tell Count Dracula he's got spinach in his teeth?
Review : Some people are born with all of the talent. That is the case with Adam Rex and this amazingly illustrated book of monster poetry. I was first introduced to this book through a colleague and the moment she opened the pages, I was hooked. Mr. Rex has created a monster b...more
Review : Some people are born with all of the talent. That is the case with Adam Rex and this amazingly illustrated book of monster poetry. I was first introduced to this book through a colleague and the moment she opened the pages, I was hooked. Mr. Rex has created a monster b...more
Hmmm...this is a picture book, but I'm not quite sure if it's for children. I do know, however, that it's for ME. So, ha ha children....I'm keeping the book and you can't have it!
The humor is quirky, and the art is not only incredibly engaging, but done in a vast variety of styles. All the classic monsters are here (Frankenstein, Dracula, Wolfman, Phantom of the Opera, and so on) and somehow Rex's irreverence for these monsters make it seem all the more reverent. He clearly loves these guys, and...more
The humor is quirky, and the art is not only incredibly engaging, but done in a vast variety of styles. All the classic monsters are here (Frankenstein, Dracula, Wolfman, Phantom of the Opera, and so on) and somehow Rex's irreverence for these monsters make it seem all the more reverent. He clearly loves these guys, and...more
Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich caught my eye on a display of Halloween books at a bookstore. I was delighted that it was picked for the Children's Picture Book Club monthly themed reads for this: http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/6...
When my husband saw this selection from the library, he decided to read this one out loud. I had fun listening to the collection of humorous poems mostly about well known monsters. I know my husband enjoyed himself because I watched him transformed before my eyes i...more
When my husband saw this selection from the library, he decided to read this one out loud. I had fun listening to the collection of humorous poems mostly about well known monsters. I know my husband enjoyed himself because I watched him transformed before my eyes i...more
Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich is a fantastic combination of picture book and poetry that will be sure to tickle the funny bone of any monster loving kid or adult. Adam Rex illustrates a series of poems that connect with many of the traditional monsters such as Frankenstein's monster, Dracula, The Wolfman, The Mummy and others. There are some elements to the poems that will appeal to the adult readers and children may not get, This isn't as large a drawback as one might imagine, for it really mak...more
The existence of such a book (found at the UU church rummage sale, of course) made me realize that there are more kids like my son in this world! It's like the book was made just for him. We read some of the poems aloud to our neighbor, laying on a blanket in our yard, and I could see that she was thinking...."okay...weird," which is the normal response one would have, I think. However, this book could be a portal for the average adult into Morgan's world. Poems narrate the everyday dilemmas of...more
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Jun 17, 2009
Chandra
rated it
5 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
Scieszka fans, Classic Monster lovers and readers who love satire and irony
Izzy was instantly drawn to this at the bookstore today and spent a good half hour sitting by herself giggling over the pictures. I flipped through and approved of the illustrations and threw it in the cart, but I wasn't expecting much. She wanted to read it right when we got home. This is the first picture book where I've literally had to pause while reading because I was laughing so dang hard!
This book is a bit like The Stinky Cheese Man and Squids Will Be Squids in it's concept (satire of a f...more
This book is a bit like The Stinky Cheese Man and Squids Will Be Squids in it's concept (satire of a f...more
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(Four stars based on the parts I read) I read half of this and enjoyed it. Very humorous, witty, fun-fun-fun and creepy/ghoulish without being too scary or gross. The accompanying illustrations really add to the story and mood and there are so many fun little "extras" to find and read, like the newspaper articles characters are reading on the sidelines, etc. BUT, I just could not get through this book in one sitting. Maybe I am simply "done" with Halloween-y books for the year, but it got to be...more
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If you've been following my reviews, you know how rarely I give those 5 stars. This book totally gets 5 stars. I checked it out from the library with my kids. Heck, I have rarely laughed so hard. I think I'm going to have to buy it for me. The author's illustrations are just adorable, like kids' versions of the Universal movie monsters and the rhymes are so clever. Every little poem is hysterical, and we're still singing some of them, even though we turned the book back to the library weeks ago....more
Oct 10, 2010
Lisa Vegan
rated it
4 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
kids who like their humor outrageous and ghoulish and a tad warped
Recommended to Lisa by:
Abigail & Chandra & Ceridwen
I should hate this book! Between♩♪♫♬ The Girl from Ipanema, luckily not much re Pop Goes the Weasel, but especially the infamous It’s a Small World After All, It’s a Small World After All, It’s a Small World After All... Ha!
I would have really liked The Invisible Haircut when I was young, but this is one I think I enjoyed more as an adult than I would have as a kid. I don’t see kids getting all the jokes. But that makes this one fun for adults to read aloud to kids; they can enjoy it too. I’ve n...more
I would have really liked The Invisible Haircut when I was young, but this is one I think I enjoyed more as an adult than I would have as a kid. I don’t see kids getting all the jokes. But that makes this one fun for adults to read aloud to kids; they can enjoy it too. I’ve n...more
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Yeah, it's a children's picture book. So what of it? Adam Rex is not only a genius, he's a nostalgic riotous genius. It's obvious he loves the Universal Monsters with an undying affection, and yet he has no problem sticking up a pair of rabbit-ear fingers behind their heads when he snaps his picture. He's got single stories, rhyming jokes and running gags scattered from cover to cover. My favorite bit without question is the poor Phantom of the Opera, who can't manage to concentrate on writing h...more
This is a book that seems like a traditional "children's book," but I don't really think this book was written for kids. Younger kids just wouldn't get the tongue-in-cheek humor that is present in this book, and so much would just fly right over their heads (I tried it on my 8 year old niece, and we only got about 3 stories in--she just didn't get it). I really think this is more of a young adult or adult book that happens to have pictures.
The poems in here are so clever and funny, and the illus...more
The poems in here are so clever and funny, and the illus...more
My almost 16 year old daughter brought this book home from the library and told me, "You *have* to read this!" Since the leaves are turning yellow and All Hallow's Eve is on the way, I wholeheartedly agreed it was the perfect time of year to do so.
In these pages you'll see the predicaments that Frankenstein, Dracula, and even the Phantom of the Opera get into in their everyday lives. Both the poetry and the illustrations are a delight. Along the way you'll discover the wide gulf between Bigfoot...more
In these pages you'll see the predicaments that Frankenstein, Dracula, and even the Phantom of the Opera get into in their everyday lives. Both the poetry and the illustrations are a delight. Along the way you'll discover the wide gulf between Bigfoot...more
Every now and then a book gets ordered for our library that shouldn't have been....this is one of those. It is obviously a children's book and not meant for high schoolers...though I'm sure there are some who would enjoy it! Luckily, we have a child care course of study program that has student's analyzing children's books so we'll add it to that list.
I did borrow it however to share with my two young daughters. They loved it! They enjoyed the pictures, silly faces and clever rhymes. They especi...more
I did borrow it however to share with my two young daughters. They loved it! They enjoyed the pictures, silly faces and clever rhymes. They especi...more
A great poetry book for warped elementary kids. I LOVE IT!!! Funny stuff. Dracula has a piece of spinach in his teeth and nobody wants to tell him...
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Apr 26, 2011
Brenda
rated it
4 of 5 stars
Recommended to Brenda by:
School Librarian for Poetry Month
Shelves:
picture-books
This is the storybook if you love those creepy black and white movies with characters like Wolfman, Dracula, The Phantom of the Opera and even if you just like Witches and Bigfoot. There are wonderful illustrations with equally humorous rhymes, comics, limericks and stories. What makes it such fun is that these monsters are doing day to day things but in a fun and silly way like Frankenstein making a sandwich, the invisible man getting a haircut or even the son of Dracula going to the dentist. I...more
I absolutely love this book. The illustations are beautiful and just as funny as the poetry. With titles like "The Invisible Man gets a Haircut" and "Count Dracula Doesn't Know He's Been Walking Around All Night With Spinach In His Teeth" how can you go wrong?! This is one of those books where the author has created something with such detail that the story starts on the cover through the title page and copyright page (entitled The Invisible Man makes a Snow Angel) all the way through to the bac...more
Who can resist poems entitled, "The Phantom of the Opera Can't Get 'It's a Small World' Out of His Head," "The Creature From the Black Lagoon Doesn't Wait an Hour Before Swimming," and "Count Dracula Doesn't Know He's Been Walking Around All Night with Spinach in his Teeth."
There's a lot of bad children's poetry out there, but these are clever, funny, and even have good meter. I usually reserve my children's book reviews for my other profile (http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/23...), but I had...more
There's a lot of bad children's poetry out there, but these are clever, funny, and even have good meter. I usually reserve my children's book reviews for my other profile (http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/23...), but I had...more
This author is very creative.
The full title of this book is: Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich and Other Stories You're Sure to Like, Because They're All About Monsters, and Some of Them are Also About Food. You Like Food Don't You? Well, All Right Then.
I love, love, love the quirky poems in this book!
A Friendly Frank who is just hungry
Big Foot and Yeti are tired of being mistaken for each other
Dr. Jekyll mixes the wrong formula and instead of being the life of the party becomes a cure for insomnia
Dracula has an embarrassing...more
I love, love, love the quirky poems in this book!
A Friendly Frank who is just hungry
Big Foot and Yeti are tired of being mistaken for each other
Dr. Jekyll mixes the wrong formula and instead of being the life of the party becomes a cure for insomnia
Dracula has an embarrassing...more
I think Adam Rex is amazing. I love reading his BLOG, I think he is hilarious and I really admire his versatility as an artist.
I just had the sequel to this book, Frankenstein Takes The Cake , land on my desk. I'm about to sit down and relish it word by word, monster by monster, when I realized that I never rated Frankenstein Makes A Sandwich ... so here I go.
From the second I saw the subtitle of this book I knew I was in for a good time: Frankenstein Makes A Sandwich: And Other Stories You're...more
I just had the sequel to this book, Frankenstein Takes The Cake , land on my desk. I'm about to sit down and relish it word by word, monster by monster, when I realized that I never rated Frankenstein Makes A Sandwich ... so here I go.
From the second I saw the subtitle of this book I knew I was in for a good time: Frankenstein Makes A Sandwich: And Other Stories You're...more
I <3 this book. Adam Rex is a poetic genius of the gleefully and, perhaps to some, annoyingly clever kind, and he's a fantastic illustrator to boot. How can anyone resist a kids' book that includes (randomly, I might add) a painting of a monster truck roaring through ice cream in a parfait glass beneath the caption, "Sundae, Sundae, Sundae!"?
From the obligatory copyright/library-of-congress/etc. info page to the table of contents to the endpapers, every single aspect of this amazingly silly b...more
From the obligatory copyright/library-of-congress/etc. info page to the table of contents to the endpapers, every single aspect of this amazingly silly b...more
By: Adam Rex; Grades: 2-3
This collection of poems are centered around monsters. The poems are scary versions, written in a Dr. Seuss sort-of-way. The book headlines Frankenstein as a chef trying to make a sandwich, and gets into other "menu" items with famous monster-like characters.
This is a terrific book of poems. They are creatively written and equally designed. The backgrounds and illustrations are fantastic. This could be used at anytime, but it would fit perfectly around Halloween.
This collection of poems are centered around monsters. The poems are scary versions, written in a Dr. Seuss sort-of-way. The book headlines Frankenstein as a chef trying to make a sandwich, and gets into other "menu" items with famous monster-like characters.
This is a terrific book of poems. They are creatively written and equally designed. The backgrounds and illustrations are fantastic. This could be used at anytime, but it would fit perfectly around Halloween.
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Absolutely hilarious collection of monster/ghoulish poems. My personal favorites are the the Phantom of the Opera bits (best poem title ever: "The Phantom of the Opera can't get 'It's a Small World' out of his head") and "Count Dracula doesn't know he's been walking around all night with a piece of spinach in his teeth." And I haven't even mentioned the fact that the illustrations are just amazing (typical Adam Rex). I can't wait to share these with the book club kids next Halloween!
Subtitled 'And other stories you're sure to like, because they're about monsters, and some of them are about food. You like food, don't you? Well, all right then,' this collection of poems about familiar monsters is laugh-out-loud funny. Featuring clever homages to famous illustrators, this book is a terrific reader's advisory selection for ages 7 through 11, and will have kids in stitches."
SPL Summary: "Stories in verse about the monster-sized problems Dracula, Wolfman, Bigfoot and other monste...more
SPL Summary: "Stories in verse about the monster-sized problems Dracula, Wolfman, Bigfoot and other monste...more
I have to post a review on this collection of super-short monster stories/poems for children because it is so funny! Like any collection there are a few duds. But gems like, "The Invisible Man Gets a Haircut", "The Creature from the Black Lagoon Doesn't Wait an Hour Before Swimming", "Dracula Has Spinach in His Teeth", "Bigfoot Can't Believe You Called Him Yeti Just Now", and "Godzilla Pooped on My Honda" are hilarious. If you have kids - read this book with them!
This book is full of silly poems that entertain young boys. It also has one that my boys just won't sit through - too long, too wordy (the Jekyll & Hyde one - see, I can't even remember the name, I've never been allowed to read it!). Make sure you read all the newspaper stories in The Invisible Man Gets a Haircut before reading the poem. Now I just need to learn the tune for The Girl from Ipanema so I can sing-along with that trial the Phantom must undergo...
Dec 06, 2008
K
rated it
4 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
people who like monsters, Tiny Toons
Shelves:
childrens,
humorlightness
Silly poems about frightening characters like Frankenstein (who uses the food people throw at him to make a sandwich), the yeti (who is offended that you would mistake him for bigfoot), and the Phantom of the Opera (who can't get "It's a Small World After all" out of his head). Witty and smart, likely to be enjoyed by parents as well as their kids. Gorgeous color illustrations by Rex, whose background in fantasy art has a chance to shine here.
Hmm. Parts dragged and I couldn't focus. Background details were often fun - spend some time with the pages in the barber shop. The Phantom of the Opera could have carried a whole book by himself. (And I would have rated that book higher.) Perhaps if I were sharing this aloud with a 7 yo child I'd have enjoyed it more. Then again, I've never liked monster stories or movies or Halloween. I admit that I only read it for a group read.
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Adam Rex grew up in Phoenix, Arizona, the middle of three children. He was neither the smart one (older brother) or the cute one (younger sister), but he was the one who could draw. He took a lot of art classes as a kid, trying to learn to draw better, and started painting when he was 11. And later in life he was drawn down to Tucson in order to hone his skills, get a BFA from the University of Ar...more
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Feb 10, 2010 06:18am
How lovely! And how TRUE!
Feb 10, 2010 08:18am