Paul Lewis (4)

You can already tell it's going to be cute from the cover alone, but even better than I hoped - simple and to the point rhymes by the alphabet covering all sorts of scenarios where things can go wrong - fast.

The rhymes and perils of dooms are joined with illustrated, graphic details of these horrors awaiting mankind - everything from aliens to zombies to viruses. We even get Trump who is going to paint our heads orange!

There's a small round avatar of the father in black n white as he reads show more the children's story along with his son - everything from horror to anger to confusion graces his face when he flips the pages. There's a funny final page showing what happens to the father when he tries to reassure his kid.

There's chuckles, there's color, there's humor, there's ... warning, kind of. Well, not really, this is a spoof on some things we already know and fear. Mankind - are we doomed??

If I had a complaint, it would be that it's a little short. I guess that's the trend for these quick kid goodnight stories though...*sniff, sniff*

Giving an honest review after receiving from Netgalley show less

Great idea, solid execution.

* Although, if you're going to include ISIS, you could at least dedicate "w" to white supremacists to balance things out. (T for Trump is a swing and a miss, sans any overt mention of domestic terrorism.)

(Full disclosure: I received a free electronic ARC for review through NetGalley.)

A Is for Asteroids, Z Is for Zombies: A Bedtime Book about the Coming Apocalypse
Author: Paul Lewis (Author), Kenneth Kit Lamug (Author)
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Publishing Date: (October 10, 2017)
Pgs: 40
Dewey: 818.602 L675a
Disposition: Irving Public Library - South Campus - Irving, TX
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REVIEW MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS

Summary:
A, B, Cs of the Apocalypse from a father to a son. A darkly comedic vision of the end of everything. Global show more dangers. Fear. Macabre. Gory. Doom. Gallows humor.
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Genre:
Satire
Parody
Comic Strips
ABCs
Apocalypse

Why this book:
Intriguing.
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Realized as I reading this that my usual review format wasn’t where I needed to go. And so…

A is for AAAHHHH.
B is for not bedtime stories.
C is for the civilization that survives.
D is for the dark dreams of a dying Earth.
E is for an Earth wheezing a last breath.
F is for freaky.
G is for gore.
H is for Haunting and so much more.
I is for I can’t believe this could be mistaken for a kid’s book.
J is for jumping out of their little skins.
K is for knowledge that some of these things are possible.
L is for a long life surviving the apocalypse.
M is for the monsters that humans dream up.
N is for no way on reading this to your young ones unless you want them sleeping with you and going to tons of therapy.
O is for OMG.
P is for what the dad in the story is doing on himself by story’s end.
Q is for reading this in a house that’s too quiet.
R is for reading, it’s still fundamental.
S is for the starkness of a world dying.
T is for not believing that Trump got into the text.
U is for the ugliness that sprawls in these pages, the possible apocalypse is the ugliest of all.
W is for weirdness and not what I was expecting.
X is for the extra little tingle when you consider the future.
Y is for youth and their surviving dark tomorrows.
Z is for zombies who when placed in context with everything else trying to kill us aren’t that frightening at all.
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Full review to come!