Monday, October 31, 2016

Top 5 Spooky Parodies of Classic Children's Books

It's Halloween and that means candy, punny costumes, and hearing 'Monster Mash' every 10 minutes on the radio.  If you're looking to inject some literature into your Halloween, look no further than these five positively terrifying parodies of classic children's books.

5. The Runaway Mummy

by Michael Rex, Puffin Books, $6.99, ISBN: 9780142421215, Paperback


Once there was a little mummy who wanted to run away,
"If you run away," said Mother Mummy, "I will get you! For you are my
rotten little mummy!"
"If you try and get me," said the little mummy, "I will turn into a
sea monster that lurks at the bottom of the sea."



4. The Very Hungry Zombie

by Michael Teitelbaum, Skyhorse Publishing, $14.95, ISBN: 9781620871829, Hardcover


A blood-red moon shown
down on a corpse that lay
rotting beneath the ground.
At the crack of dawn, on a Sunday morning, 
out of a grave crawled a
horrifically hungry zombie.
He started to hunt for fresh, juicy 
humans to snack on.
On Monday, he devoured one astronaut.
But he found himself in a gaseous atmosphere.


3. Goodnight Goon

by Michael Rex, G. P. Putnam's Books for Young Readers, $15.99, ISBN: 9780399245345, Hardcover


Good night skull
And good night shoe
Goodnight creature
Goodnight goo
And goodnight to the old werewolf hollering "Boo."


2. Frankenstein

by Rick Walton, Feitwel & Friends, $14.99, ISBN: 9780312553661, Hardcover


In a creepy old castle
all covered with spines,
lived twelve ugly monsters in two crooked lines.


1. Pat the Zombie

by Aaron Ximm, Ten Speed Press, $11.99, ISBN: 9781607740360, Paperback


Judy can gut the zombie.
Now YOU gut the zombie.
Paul can search the remains,
Now YOU search the remains.