SOLVED. Gross and scary children's book! Frankenstein gets chopped up and goes to heaven. [s]

[Liam]

I read this book from the early 2000's to 2013 being the last time I saw it.

I think the books name was gross mother goose? Or had to do with Dr. Frankenstein? Or something about monsters.
It had no solid plot, but a single story, rhyme, or poem per two pages with illustrations covering the pages.

It was a black hardcover illustrated book, the drawings were in full color and looked kind of like 'ahhh! real monsters' in the way they were gross. It was still cartoon-like but had that touch or realism like moles, lots of wrinkles, veins etc.

I can remember a few of the illustrations:

One was of a child cowering in their bed, their sheets pulled up to their eyes while a vampire stares down at them from the high ceiling.

The second was of a old women holding a bloody sack smiling, and another man in a black cloak and top hat carrying his feet in a bag over his shoulder, they were chopping up Frankenstein. On the following page it shows him chopped up in heaven, with wings on all of his body parts. I vividly remember his butt with wings floating next to his head.

There was a couple panels showing monsters hiding in a children's park on a moonlight night, ready to eat unsuspecting kids who would dare take the slide that ended at a gaping monsters mouth.

A sweet looking blonde girl fell in love with Dr. Frankenstein, it looks like shes sighing and lovingly clutching her chest over her heart. The poem says something about the Dr. stealing her heart and it shows him sneaking behind her with a heart in a jar.

Yet another was of a small boy clutching at a monsters side while the monster is holding his stomach hungry, the boy is telling the monster to wait. Just around the corner a business man is walking unsuspectingly towards them.

There was a cowboy standoff, but instead of guns they wielded red birds with cannon like beaks.

At some point i think it showed sea creatures? Like an urchin with eyes and feet, literal cat and dog fish, it was very strange.

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

Liam, please add a few of those plot details (or illustrations descriptions) to your plot header. This will help anyone searching for your book.

[A.]

Maybe “Children Are Skary” - Katey Towell? It certainly sounds like a lot of her works.

[Liam]

Lobstergirl wrote: "Liam, please add a few of those plot details (or illustrations descriptions) to your plot header. This will help anyone searching for your book."

I think I fixed it?? Sorry, there really wasn't a plot, it was just two pages with less than a paragraph total and the illustrations told most of the story.

[Liam]

A. wrote: "Maybe “Children Are Skary” - Katey Towell? It certainly sounds like a lot of her works."

Unfortunately no :( I thought it might be Stephen Gammell, but no dice there either.

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

The whole book was just two pages?

[SamSpayedPI]

Lobstergirl wrote: "The whole book was just two pages?"

I think each illustration/story covered two pages.

[Liam]

Found it, 'Making friends with Frankenstein' by Colin McNaughton

[Liam]

SamSpayedPI wrote: "Lobstergirl wrote: "The whole book was just two pages?"

I think each illustration/story covered two pages."

exactamundo my friend, but lo' Ive found the friggn book after days. woop woop.

[Kris]

Glad you found your book, Liam. Here's the link - Making Friends with Frankenstein: A Book of Monstrous Poems and Pictures by Colin McNaughton.