How to Knit a Monster by Annemarie van Haeringen. PICTURE BOOK. Clarion Books (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), 2014. $18. 9781328842107
BUYING ADVISORY: EL (K-3) - OPTIONAL.
AUDIENCE APPEAL: AVERAGE
Greta is a goat who knits a lot. One day she is knitting baby goats when Mrs. Sheep comes in and says that she is a better knitter. Goat is so distracted she knits until her knitting turns into a wolf and the wolf eats Mrs. Wolf. Greta knits a tiger to eat the wolf and a monster to eat the tiger. Greta gets smart with the monster and holds on to the tread so she can unravel the animals until Mrs. Sheep is free.
My kids enjoyed this book a lot. The end has a visual joke that they laughed out loud at. The text might be a little violent for some young readers, but it is a fun story to image what could happen from getting distracted. The illustrations are a stylized but still very literal and bright.
Jen Wecker, HS English Teacher
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