One Monster After Another

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Summary: Snap this up!!!
Review: As a childhood fan of Mercer Mayer, I ordered this book for my young sons, not realizing it was a reprint of a delightful book I had as a child. The illustrations in this book are lively and offer a depth of detail for little ones and the adults reading it to them. It is one of the rare books that is pleasing for parent and child after many readings. I also highly recommend the reprint of Mayer's "Professor Wormbog in Search for the Zipperump-a-zoo." Get both of these while they are still in reprint. Absolute treasures!!

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Summary: One of my favorites as a child....
Review: I loved this book, with all the illustrations. I could just sit for hours reading and looking at the pictures of monsters. I plan on reading it to my child someday....

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Summary: The Best Monster Book Ever!
Review: I raised my two children on Maurice Sendak's wonderful, fanciful book, "One Monster After Another" and I have given enumerable copies to friend's kids. Now I have none for myself and am on a constant search for a used copy. I am a preschool teacher and feel sad that I can't share these wonderful monsters with my students. I keep checking here hoping one day I will log on and find it is once again in print. It is such a wonderful classic, it should always be available. I'm am sad for anyone who has never experienced it's delights.

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Summary: The Best Monster Book Ever!
Review: I raised my two children on Maurice Sendak's wonderful, fanciful book, "One Monster After Another" and I have given enumerable copies to friend's kids. Now I have none for myself and am on a constant search for a used copy. I am a preschool teacher and feel sad that I can't share these wonderful monsters with my students. I keep checking here hoping one day I will log on and find it is once again in print. It is such a wonderful classic, it should always be available. I'm am sad for anyone who has never experienced it's delights.

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Summary: classic Meyer worth tracking down!
Review: Mercer Meyer is best known for his series of "Lil' Critter" books ("I Just Forgot", "Grandpa and Me", etc). In "One Monster After Another" he's created a whole passle of strange-yet-lovable creatures with fantastic names like the Stamp Collecting Trollusk, the Letter Eating Bombanant and-my favorite-the Wild N' Wooly Typhoonagator.

At the beginning of the story, Sally Ann writes a letter to her friend Lucy Jane. However, before the mailman can pick up the letter, a top hat-wearing Stamp Collecting Trollusk steals the letter from the mailbox (Sally Ann's mother is seen gasping in fear as she looks through the window in her housedress and hair curlers). BUT, before the Trollusk can collect the stamp-he carries a huge mail bag at his side that's overflowing with collected stamps-a flying creature called the Letter Eating Bombanant flies out of Nowhere (a street sign points "TO NOWHERE" and, opposite, "TO TOWN") and snaps up the letter.

Of course, the story hardly stops here. Another monster, the Bombanant Munching Grimley, snaps up the Bombanant, intending to eat him. BUT before it can do that, another series of misshaps takes the monsters (and the letter!) on another series of adventures. Does the letter finally get to Lucy Jane?? Heh, heh, heh... Read the book to find out!!

"One Monster..." is a kids' classic, and it is such a shame that the book is no longer in print, especially considering that the other books by Meyer are always on school and bookstore shelves. The book is oversize and the illustrations very finely detailed so the reader can all but walk into the book itself (indeed, in my imagination as a child, I did that very thing, always following my favorite creature of the moment on their adventures). The illustration is immediately identifiable as Meyer's work: it has that characteristic heavy outline and crosshatch that is the hallmark of his illustrating style, although these creatures are like no others in the body of Meyer's work.

Buyers who are searching for the book may wish to periodically check in with Amazon.com's auctions or zShops, as I've seen the book for sale there a few times (though I can't imagine why anyone would wish to part with it!). If you find it, KEEP IT. Turn it into a family heirloom and read it often, it's one of Meyer's finest works. In the meantime, petition the publishers! Write your congressperson!! Get this staple of childhood back into print!!

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Summary: One of my favorites as a child....
Review: My children now range in age from 28 to 33. Their father read this to them almost every night. They loved it! The monsters have such great names and do NOT frighten young children (mine where under five when we starting reading Mercer Mayer). They are all getting a copy of this for Christmas to share with my grandchildren. Hope it never goes out of print again.

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Summary: Mercer Mayer, "One Monster After Another"
Review: My children now range in age from 28 to 33. Their father read this to them almost every night. They loved it! The monsters have such great names and do NOT frighten young children (mine where under five when we starting reading Mercer Mayer). They are all getting a copy of this for Christmas to share with my grandchildren. Hope it never goes out of print again.

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Summary: Too small!
Review: One of the all time greats. But I was disappointed after ordering a new hardcover copy. It is smaller than the original printing, with the result that the binding cuts across monster faces. Very lame. I am sending it back and ordering a used copy from the original printing.

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Summary: One Monster After Another
Review: This is a charming children's book, both in word and illustration. It is unfortunate that it is out of print, but if you can find a copy, grab on to it----it's a Keeper and a Classic. They don't write them like this anymore, except for Mr. Mayer. A GEM

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Summary: Read it! Read it! Read it! (No matter how old u think u are)
Review: This is the best children's book I've read! With characters (monsters) comparable to those of Dr. Seuss, such as the Stamp-collecting Trollusk and the Wild-n-windy Typhoonigator, it can't help but suck you in! I dig it, man!