Spider Sandwiches

Spider Sandwiches

Come along on a monstrous feast for the senses in this spooky, silly Halloween picture book! Come and eat with Max, he has a MONSTER appetite. He eats such yucky, mucky food, his mealtimes are a fright. From fish-eye cheese and bug burgers to snail trail sauce and cockroach curry, Max will feast on anything crawly, creepy, hairy and sticky. But his favorite snack has to be Spider Sandwiches! Kids will laugh out loud at Max's monstrous mealtimes and terrible tastes in this silly, funny, gloopy, gunky picture book from bestselling author Claire Freedman and illustrator Sue Hendra. PreS-Gr 1—Max the monster has an appetite for anything gloopy, gunky, and gross. He starts his day with toenail scrambled eggs and a crushed-grasshopper-legs smoothie, and for lunch he eats multicolored lice rice. He cooks slimed-eel noodles from Squealia's Monsters' Cookbook and buys treats like rat's-tail pizza and blue-mold chips at the grocery store. Squiggly spider sandwiches are his favorite. The only thing the seeming omnivore emphatically turns down is…green sprout soup. Although the rhyming pattern isn't consistent throughout, on most of the pages, the second and fourth line rhyme. Hendra and Linnet's digital illustrations and glittery cover offset the story's gross-out factor. The monster and bugs are cute. Teeth are rounded and eyes are wide open. A humorous introduction to eating habits and preferences.—Tanya Boudreau, Cold Lake Public Library, AB, Canada “A humorous introduction to eating habits and preferences.” ― School Library Journal Claire Freedman is the bestselling author of the Aliens Love Underpants series for Simon & Schuster, which has sold over 1.5 million copies worldwide. S pider Sandwiches is Claire's first picture book for Bloomsbury. Claire lives in Essex. www.clairefreedman.co.uk @clairefreedman Sue Hendra is the creator of several bestselling picture books including Barry the Fish with Fingers and Norman the Slug with the Silly Shell , and her work has sold almost 2 million copies worldwide. Her picture book series Wanda and the Alien appeared as an animated series on Milkshake in 2014. Sue's picture books for Bloomsbury are Spider Sandwiches, Dragon Jelly, Monster Max ' s Shark Spaghetti , Four Silly Skeletons , and Scary Hairy Party . Sue lives in Brighton. suehendra.com