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Monster Museum
Monster Museum Overview
Welcome, brave souls, to the Monster Museum!
On your left, see the Zombie do his walk.
Look out for the mummy (she's snapped and come unwrapped).
Frankenstein's grumpy—they gave him a bride, but never a name.
Come in, if you dare, and meet all the slimy, screaming, slithery friends and fiends. They're just dying to show you a good time!
Gris Grimly's colorful caricatures perfectly complement the playful beat of Marilyn Singer's poems to create a ghastly good Halloween read.
Monster Museum Specifications
Enter, if you dare, the Monster Museum, whose halls are crowded with the likes of Count Dracula, Bigfoot, poltergeists, Medusa, mummies, zombies, werewolves, and The Blob. Nine gawking children, dressed in itchy-looking green tweed school uniforms, are led through the spider-strewn museum by a sinister, leering docent, who introduces each ghastly monster in verse:
Alas, King Kong, he sealed his fate
When he climbed up the Empire State
Oh, why'd he try this great escape?
'Cause they called him a monkey
And he was an ape!
While Marilyn Singer's rhymes are often forced, the humor and subtle edification compensates. (One myth debunked: Frankenstein is the name of the scientist, not the creature himself, who whines "No wonder I'm cranky-- / Stop calling me Frankie! / Won't
somebody give me a name!"). Gris Grimly's weird illustrations are appropriately creepy--even the regular human beings (who systematically disappear throughout the tour) sport some grotesque body parts, including giant, gnarled hands. (Ages 4 to 7)
--Emilie Coulter
