Making Friends with Frankenstein is a silly and funny poetry book. It is a poetry book centered on monsters. There are poems from your worst enemy to Dracula, to monstrous insults, and aliens. The book is a mutiny of puns and rhymes using repetition and onomatopoeia to impersonate the monsters. This is a perfect book to introduce poetry because children will be able to see how poetry can be fun and silly. ( )

Making Friends with Frankenstein is an outright silly collection by Colin McNaughton aimed at intermediate elementary school boys who otherwise won’t touch poetry. The poems are simple, with easy rhyming schemes and clappable rhythms. They do not venture into the realms of complicated imagery, and really depend on the drawings to spell out most of the action for readers. Frankly, some of the poems aren’t even that good, but they ARE fun. It is chock full of words like “fartface,” monsters, and generally gross concepts and images. It’s a little long to be read cover-to-cover by its primary audience, but it would be a good collection for teacher use. Recommended for any school or public libraries, to be featured in October. ( )