CHOMPY HAS A FRIEND FOR LUNCH

Here’s a chance to get up close and personal with a friendly monster!

Chompy, a multicolored monster with bulging eyes, a large mouth, and horns, is thrilled to have a play date with the reader. Unlike Chompy’s parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents, Chompy doesn’t eat people…right? That is the story's central question. Noticing that something smells great, Chompy realizes that it is the reader producing that wonderful aroma and nervously asks for a tiny lick of an elbow. A flap extends Chompy’s tongue for slurps. Uh-oh. The reader is delicious. What if the adorable monster does eat people? To test that theory, Chompy asks for a little “chomp” of the reader’s toe, pinky, or nose. Mouth open wide, Chompy takes a bite. After two spreads of the creature gagging and moaning, Chompy reveals that the reader tastes awful, “like sweat and sandboxes and boogers and dirty socks and all that gross human stuff.” Chompy is elated, though (being a human-eating monster makes it tough to have friends!) and asks the human reader for one last favor—a big hug. Flaps on both sides of the spread create a truly big Chompy hug. Hyperdramatic illustrations bring Chompy to life and add layers of laughter to this wonderfully interactive story. (This book was reviewed digitally.)

An endearing and over-the-top funny way to turn those scary monsters under the bed into friends.