The Books

The Snack Smasher

by Andrea Perry
Illustrated by Alan Snow

One Potato Review

Don’t know much about poetry, but these frolicsome verses will introduce you to some pretty vile villains and otherwise exculpatory mythologies: not only the Snack Smasher of the title (who appears to be able to break into lunch boxes even) but also Puzzle Piece Eaters and Bottle Cap Nappers and Scary Hair Fairies, as well as a couple of gratuitous hybrids (Mistletoads and Grumblebees) which seem to have wandered in from the neighborhood which Roald Dahl and Shel Silverstein once shared. Slapstick and surprising.