Monster Goose

Mother Goose may never be the same...Sierra's Monster Goose looks like the traditional frumpy goose, but look more closely...yes, there it is. Monster Goose has that evil gleam in her eye, not to mention a discreet pair fangs...not only does she look more sinister than Mother Goose, her tales are decidedly creepier and CHOCK full of monsters, snakes, bats, slugs, and creepy crawlies of all kinds! What we get in Monster Goose is a creepy parody of our most favored nursery rhymes! Sierra covers Hickory Dickory Dock (Slithery Dithery Dock), Mary Had a Little Lamb (Mary Had a Vampire Bat), Jack and Jill (Jill and Jaques), Twinkle Twinkle Little Star (Twinkle Twinkle Little Slug), and many more!! Some are cute, clever, witty, and just the show more right amount of creepy...while others not so much, thankfully where that happens, Davis' illustrations make up for it! The illustrations here are simply delightful...Mary with her vampire bat is a green, Goth chick (too funny); little Jack Horner is a green cannibal, complete with nose ring; Bo Peep has vampire sheep peeking around a tree at the unsuspecting werewolf; the zaniness is just perfect for this horrible nursery rhymes!

Overall, I give it four stars, the text and illustrations are fun, creepy and a perfect match for one another...it only gets four stars because not all of the rhymes work (some are strained and aren't all that funny or cute). Obviously you'd be doing yourself a favor to add this to your reading repertoire around Halloween, but there's simply NO reason not to add a little Monster Goose to your reading list at any time of the year! I'll be buying a copy of this for my permanent library! As a side now, I noticed, when I went to get some publishing information for when I post this to my blog, that many reviewers/parents complained about the use of gasoline and turpentine in a couple of the rhymes...if your kids would think it was ok to use those things for drinking or brushing their teeth, you haven't done your job as a parent. As for the calls that this would frighten kids...well, that's rather the point...but really, this is more campy creepy that genuinely scary, again it's a matter of not just how children perceive it...it's how YOU treat it as well. These are silly rhymes that take a monsterific twist on the classic Mother Goose nursery rhymes. show less

A collection of twisted, creepy versions of Mother Goose nursery rhymes. The illustrations are delightful playful and dynamically wicked, calling to mind the Gruffalo and Room on the Broom. Priority is often paid more to a play at experimental art style than usability, but readers of this book will enjoy the interaction between text and pictures.

Very good rhymes with great illustrations but a little too scary for young children.

Delightfully icky adaptations of some of the classic Mother Goose rhymes.

This almost parody of mother goose stories, the monster goose stories are scary and gross.

This is a collection of nursery rhymes turned spooky.

picture book, nursery rhymes, halloween, nursery rhyme variation, humour