I could never watch scary movies when I was a child, because they always gave me nightmares. Many of my friends loved them though, and would talk at length about seeing movies where vampires sucked people's blood, and monsters lurked in nasty dark places.
In today's poetry title, Doug Cushman pays tribute to some of the most famous scary movies of all time, and he does so in a unique and very humorous way.
Doug Cushman
Poetry
For ages 7 to 9
Charlesbridge, 2012, 978-1-58089-401-2
It is nighttime, and a young pig is sitting up in bed
watching monster movies on his little TV. After seeing “Dead zombies crawl out
from foul-smelling places,” and “Vampire pigs fly from castles at night,” the
young pig begins to realize that he should “never watch monsters on film before
bed.”
The monsters he
is talking about include Frankenswine, a creature that is made up of “pieces
and parts.” Feared by others because of his horrific appearance, Frankenswine
runs away until he ends up alone and friendless on an Arctic ice floe.
Then there is
The Porker from the Black Lagoon, a terrible creature “with scaly claws and
slimy snout.” This monster has disgusting habits, and it is terribly crabby to
boot. Of course, one does have to consider that “it is hard to grin when every
day / there’s water in your shorts.” Perhaps this monster is entitled to spells
of bad temper.
The Porker from
the Black Lagoon is not the only monster that has to deal with dreadful living
conditions. The Abominable Snow Pig lives in a place of perpetual cold, a
frozen mountain in Tibet. His food is always cold, as are his hands and feet.
Even the logs in his fireplace “are giant ice blocks.”
In this
deliciously clever collection of poems, Doug Cushman pays tribute to some of
the most famous horror movies of all time, and he does so in a very humorous
way. All the monsters in these poems are porcine in nature, and their stories,
and the situations they get into, are deliciously funny and silly.
At the back of
the book the author gives his readers a little information about the real
horror movies that inspired the poems.
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