Making Friends with Frankenstein

by Mcnaughton Colin (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1995

  $4.47

  There are fifty-six poems in this award-winning book of verse and pictures. In addition to ghouls, ghosts, beasts and weirdos of every description, the characters include such new and memorable characters as The Wild-Bill Hickok Bird, The Doom Merchant, Sophie Charlotte Wyatt-Wyatt and the unfortunate Professor Blinker. Discover the fiendish secrets of Jekyll and Hyde Park, what an ogre eats for his breakfast, and meet some very recognisably human monsters too! Colin McNaughton has written and illustrated There's an Awful Lot of Weirdos in our Neighbourhood , Who's Been Sleeping in My Porridge? , Have You Seen Who's Just Moved in Next Door to Us? (winner of the 1991 Emil/Kurt Maschler Award), Watch Out for the Giant-Killers! (shortlisted for the 1991 Earthworm Award), Who's That Banging on the Ceiling? , Captain's Abdul's Pirate School , Here Come the Aliens and Suddenly shortlisted for the 1994 Smarties Book Prize.

• Used

  Paperback
  2000

  $3.36

• Used

  Hardcover
  1993

  $4.31

  A collection of 55 illustrated poems about ghouls, ghosts, beasts and weirdos featuring characters like The Wild Bill Hickock Bird, The Doom Merchant, Sophie Charlotte Wyatt-Wyatt and the unfortunate Professor Blinker. There are also poems about the fiendish secrets of the Jekyll and Hyde Park, what an ogre eats for his breakfast and some very human monsters as well. Colin McNaughton has written and illustrated three other volumes of verse, There's an Awful Lot of Weirdos in our Neighbourhood , Who's Been Sleeping in my Porridge? and Santa Claus is Superman . He has won prizes for his previous work, Have You Seen Who's Just Moved in Next Door to Us won the 1991 Emil/Kurt Maschler Award, Jolly Roger , won the 1989 British Children's Book Award, and Watch Out for the Giant-Killers and was shortlisted for the 1991 Earthworm Award.