Food Fright!: A Mouthwatering Novelty Book: A Mouthwatering Novelty Book

Karen Rostoker-Gruber. Price Stern Sloan, $11.99 (12pp) ISBN 978-0-8431-0456-1

A bowl full of fright is stirred up in the paper-engineered Food Fright: A Mouthwatering Novelty Book by Karen Rostoker-Grubwer, illus. by Sheila Aldridge. Rhyming text tells of 10 hungry monsters cooking up a meal, beginning with ""One cyclops stirs the eyeball stew. Two bats simmer slime fondue."" Interactive embellishments include googly eyes, spin wheels, pull tabs and flaps to lift.

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