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"Monday's troll is mean and rotten, Tuesday's troll is misbegotten... As for Wednesday's troll--and all the others--as soon as you read about them, they will be in your head (and heart) forever. Once again the collaborators of The Dragons Are Singing Tonight have combined their extraordinary talents to concoct an irresistible collection of trolls, wizards, witches, giants, ogres (and a solitary yeti). No spell is needed for these poems and pictures to enchant the reader. Just open the book!""Jack Prelutsky is up to his usual hilarious no good in this new collection of witchy, wizardly, ogreish poems....Among the subjects of these briskly amusing poems is a wizard who rashly makes himself disappear, a seven-century-old apprentice witch....and a family-type ogre....Prelutsky's skill with catchy rhymes and delightfully fiendish subject matter is complemented by Peter Sis's humorously foreboding and cheerfully nonchalant illustrations. Another treat for Prelutsky fans.""--Horn Book."

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The inspired pair has scored again -- The New York Times Book Review A Humorous brew -- School Library Journal Makes the make-believe-seem almost real -- ALA Booklist

In a companion volume to The Dragons Are Singing Tonight (1993), a talented duo introduces a variety of trolls, ogres, witches, a bigfoot, and a yeti. Prelutsky's verse is as rhythmic as ever and full of child-pleasing grotty humor, with crotchety witches and grubby goblins fully present. The first poem, I Told the Wizard to His Face, sets the tone as a bratty boy regales a wizard with variations of the word fraud: Since then I've been but two feet tall/and have a hamster's head. SIS captures the spirit of the book perfectly in his spreads framed with fabulous borders. The settings range from modern urban to mythical or medieval. Favorite pieces will be Mother Ogre's Lullaby and the title poem, but every poem will be relished, come Halloween or any time of the year. (Kirkus Reviews)

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