Z is for Zombie

Merrily Kutner, Kutner. Albert Whitman & Company, $16.99 (32pp) ISBN 978-0-8075-9490-2

Yuck! According to this grisly/gross-out compendium by a first-time author, M is for Mummy (""A rotting smell seeps in the room/ as Mummies stagger from their tomb"") and E is for ""Eyeballs lined up by the sink."" Manders renders the malicious details in keenly observed watercolor-and-gouache panels. Ages 6-9. (Sept.)

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