Romping Monsters, Stomping Monsters (2013)
Author: Jane Yolen | Illustrator: Kelly Murphy | Publisher: Candlewick Press | Ages 3-7
"Those little monsters are back - and on the move! Jane Yolen takes her rhymes to the playground, aided by Kelly Murphy's exuberant illustrations."
The sequel to the award-winning Creepy Monsters, Sleepy Monsters (2011), written by Nebula and Caldecott award winner Jane Yolen and illustrated by Kelly Murphy, for Candlewick Press.
Kelly Murphy's artwork for Romping Monsters, Stomping Monsters was awarded in the Society of Illustrators Original Art 2014 and 3x3 Magazine Picture Book Show No. 10.
Stretching, twirling, tumbling, jumping! Welcome to a playground teeming with monsters, bristling with energy, and scaring up ways to have fun. Monsters swing and slide and piggyback ride. Monsters run three-legged races and fall on their faces. Monsters eat monster-sicles and vie for the fountain (Gulp...Grrrr...Grumble...Growl...All better now!). In this high-octane sequel to Creepy Monsters, Sleepy Monsters, wild and whimsical artwork revs up a read-aloud text that will have little listeners jumping up to join the action.
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