Always Listen to Your Mother
Ernest always does what his mother asks...and never has any fun. When a new boy moves in next door, Ernest's mother encourages her son to make friends. But the new neighbors seem a little bit...strange—monstrous, even. Obeying Ernest's new friend Vlapid's mother means Ernest must do things...
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Ernest always does what his mother asks...and never has any fun. When a new boy moves in next door, Ernest's mother encourages her son to make friends. But the new neighbors seem a little bit...strange—monstrous, even. Obeying Ernest's new friend Vlapid's mother means Ernest must do things he'd never dare try at home. And it's fantastic! Veteran children's book author Florence Parry Heide and her daughter Roxanne Heide team up with Kyle M. Stone to create a gleefully subversive take on the traditional new neighbor story. Lots of energy and mayhem, and a cool gothic approach to the illustrations make this a great choice for Halloween and all year round.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781423113959 (1423113950)
Publish date: August 3rd 2010
Publisher: Disney-Hyperion
Pages no: 32
Edition language: English
Creepy little story about a lonely little boy whose controlling, clean freak mother allows him to play with the ghoulish new neighbor boy because he always listens to his mother. They have fun trashing the place. The illustrations are very effective and I would have given it another star had it been...
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