Eat Pete
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Publishing Details
Eat Pete
By (Author) Michael Rex
Illustrated by Michael Rex
Nancy Paulsen Books
Nancy Paulsen Books
3rd December 2024
4th September 2024
United States
Classifications
Children
Fiction
813.6
Physical Properties
Paperback
32
Width 205mm, Height 256mm, Spine 4mm
130g
Description
From the creator of Goodnight Goon, a laugh-out-loud friendship story that perfectly captures the high and low moments of a typical playdate! From the creator of Goodnight Goon, a laugh-out-loud friendship story that perfectly captures the high and low moments of a typical playdate! Pete couldn't be more thrilled when a monster shows up in his bedroom. Now Pete has someone to play with! And the hungry monster couldn't be more thrilled to be there, either. Now he can . . . EAT PETE! But Pete has other ideas. And they are all good fun and quite distracting-things like playing cars and pirates. But we all know the course of playing together nicely never did run smoothly. So how much longer will the monster have to wait before he can . . . EAT PETE
Reviews
Rex smartly teases out the will-he, won't-he just long enough. . . . Little readers will be briefly flabbergasted and quite giggly. Rex's clean-lined cartoons are beautifully paced. . . . A silly and surprising picture book that will quickly join regular rotation.Kirkus Reviews
The hairy, snaggletoothed, horned monster who appears at Petes window isnt some misunderstood creature in search of a friend, the kind of character thats a fixture in so many childrens books. Nope, this monster has one goal in mind: EAT PETE! . . . Readers should enjoy this clever tale from Rex (Goodnight Goon) about impulse control and its surprisingly sympathetic monster.Publishers Weekly
Author Bio
Michael Rex (MikeRexBooks.blogspot.com) has written and/or illustrated over forty children's books, including Wants vs. Needs vs. Robots, Facts vs. Opinions vs. Robots, With Any Luck, I'll Drive a Truck (by David Friend), and the New York Times #1 bestseller Goodnight Goon, as well as the Fangbone series (which has also been turned into an animated TV series). He has a master's degree in visual arts education (K-12) and worked as a New York City art teacher for four years. He lives in New Jersey with his wife and their two sons.
