title: Icky Sticky Monster Pop-Up
author: Nosy Crow
description: Offering goofy, boldly colored cartoons, Lodge delights in the general grossness (the monster's drink of choice is "stinky, wormy cabbage juice with added chunks of slug"). Her readers will, too.<br />Publishers Weekly<br /><br />The short, snappy text and the size and boldness of the pop-ups make this a surefire choice for group sharing, but novice and reluctant readers will also enjoy tackling this on their own. This has obvious and wide appeal, and the kids who gravitate towards Shel Silversteins grosser poetic offerings will be particularly pleased by Ickys actions.<br />Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books<br /><br />Children almost certainly will be intrigued by the horned blue monster, even as they sometimes shriek with disgust.<br />New York Times onlines
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  **Hidden Jewel**
  
  
  **Landry #4**
  
  
  **V.C. Andrews**
  
  
  Copyright © 1995
  
  
  ISBN: 0671873202
  
  
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  # **Prologue**
  
  
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  It always begins the same way. First I hear him singing the lullabye. He is
  carrying me in his arms, and we are walking over marshland where the grass is
  so tall that neither he nor I can see his feet, only the tops of his high
  boots. He is wearing a palmetto hat so the brim puts a mask of shadow over his
  eyes and nose. I wear my pink and white bonnet.
  
  
  Behind us, the metal monsters do their
  
  
  monotonous drumming. They resemble giant bees drawing the black nectar from
  the earth. When I look back at them, they raise their heads and nod at me and
  then raise their heads again. It frightens me and I know he realizes it does,
  because he holds me tighter and sings louder.
  
  
  Then we come upon a flock of rice birds. They rise out of the grass with grace
  and beauty, but they are so abrupt and they come so close that I can feel the
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