😂oh my this is the funniest monster book I have read. I enjoy the way the monster in the book speaks directly to the reader .. or your little monster!

The monster food really is something to behold! The illustrations are great. I found this very engaging and a fab idea for kids to laugh along and get involved with. Happy to see there are also other books to explore.

Many thanks to the Author, Publisher and Netgalley for the ARC of this delightful book.

Publication date 21/01/2025

Directly from the mouth of my four year old daughter "Monster food is silly and I love it!"

She particularly laughed when the monster topped their sandwich with a strawberry...and the monster toot!

Are you a Hungry Monster? follows a monster as they make food for the monster reading the book, however, the book monster feels like their recipe may not be the right recipe for the reading monster.

I loved this book for children- it got my daughter to talk about delicious foods and non-delicious foods. She's generally not a picky eater, so she was really curious as to why the monster was eating all the gross things and it really made her giggle. She spent the rest of the evening making monster food, and if that's not an endorsement about how fun this book is, I don't know what is.

This books is a lot of fun and the illustrations are colorful and inviting. We both really loved that the monster was wearing glasses.

This is a great book for young readers to pick up and read by themselves, and it's also good for group reading as it will bring lots of laughs. The book can be expanded on and children can be asked to make their own monster sandwich. A discussion can be had about what gross things can be used to make a similar monster sandwich. Ours was made out of dog food, toenails, and tree moss. It was quite the adventure!

This was such an adorable and funny book. It felt so interactive, kept me engaged the entire time and had me laughing. I loved the illustrations and the use of different text styles to note change in tone. Are You a Hungry Monster is a wonderful book about food, snacks, and friends. The hungry monster wants to share a monster sandwich with you. When you the reader don’t like his sandwich the monster keeps adding things to the sandwich. In the end the hungry monster sandwich makes even the hungry monster’s stomach gassy and upset.

As a Kindergarten ECCAT that reads to the kids everyday, this is a must! It has so many fun interactive parts for the kids to engage in. It also includes some of the favorite things kids like to laugh at and think are hysterical at this age. I definitely will need this book in our classroom library!

So silly! I love when a kids' book breaks the fourth wall. The kids love it, too! This book reminded me of Spider Sandwiches by Claire Freedman. Kids love gross things and this is GROSS!

Are you a hungry monster or just a regular kid? Our monster makes himself a meal that he invites us to join in on, but maybe we will sit this one out! This book is wonderful for interacting with the reader, be it a parent reading to kids, or a teacher sharing the story to a class. I was not sure about the premise but this was so funny and I’m sure kids will have a blast.

Thank you to Quarto Publishing and NetGalley for the digital ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Oh my goodness! I have never heard my six year old daughter laugh so much at a book before. This was absolutely brilliant, we both loved the interactivity of the book. It initially took her by surprise when I read and answered what she just said so this book fully engaged her constantly. The end she was grabbing her sides in stitches, the mamma Mia quote was great. We loved the illustrations and did wonder there was green gas bubbles at the start but it all made perfect sense! We would recommend this to anyone of any age as I think they’d enjoy.

Delightful pictures, accompanied by clever text, tell the story of a monster hungry to eat just about anything. Youngsters will laugh out loud at the humorous things this monster tries to share.

This is a great book to read to kids if they’re in the mood to laugh. The way that it is written makes the book interactive since the monster always asks the kids if they want to eat the sandwich the monster made for them.

The illustration matched the story line, providing images that are comedic and crazy like the sandwich the little monster makes. Overall, I liked the story line and that the book was made to be interactive with kids.

Thank you to NetGalley for providing me with a copy of this book!

Sweet and colorful pictures that were initially reminiscent of the Gruffly, which is a book my daughter loves. I wasn't overly impressed with the ending and fart humor but imagine slightly older kids would think very silly and fun.

This was a very cute book, and funny!!! I read it with my six year old, and he LOVED every bit of it. The scene with the monster off in the bathroom was my favorite part and his favorite part was the monster trying to make him eat the food! I have no notes, I can see families making all the noises together. XD

Quote from my son: “I really really really really really really loved this story, and I loved reading it with my mom!”

This was an enjoyable read with adorable illustrations. Quite funny and I think everyone reading this will have a fun time, not just children.

A cute interactive children’s book about a monster who is eating a monster sandwich. He loves to eat gross stuff and thinks normal kid food is gross.

I would like to thank Happy Yak Publishing, Guilherme Karsten, and NetGalley for allowing me (and my daughter) to preview this book before its publication date of January 21, 2025.

OMGoodness this was such a cute book! It is interactive and my daughter (6) had such a fun time telling the monster that she would NOT like more earwax on her sandwich and that she does, in fact, like chocolate. And the illustrations showing the monster having an upset stomach (with much passing gas!) made her laugh. When I asked her what she liked best, she said that she liked when the monster told her "no, no, NO!" to her food choices, as well as all the "farting pictures."

I think this book might be too young for some children who don't yet appreciate fart jokes, but it was a hit with mine.

A very silly book that definitely has my kids laughing out loud. The monster interacts with the reader and the art is well done.

I received a copy of this eBook from netGalley for a honest review.

What a cute story for kids who love monsters and gross foods (whatever you find gross)

The illustrations are fun, and the story is very silly and I think kids will love it. Parents will mostly enjoy it too, but some may not enjoy the addition of bathroom humor. But regardless I thought it was a great book that I would have enjoyed reading to my kids when they were little.

This was a unique and quirky story that I have no doubt little ones will love and laugh out loud at!

This was hilarious - a hungry monster creates the perfect lunchtime snack to share with the monster reader and I can just imagine kids who are reading this, giggling their heads off at the monsters creation and its ingredients and disagreeing in a comedic way with what the monster is making.

I even let out a couple of laughs and that last page got me good!

Thank-you Quarto Publishing Group, Guilherme Karsten and NetGalley for this Digital Advanced Readers Copy, in exchange for an honest review.

Reverse Psychology 101. Here, the creator uses his series of picture books about monsters, featuring monsters, addressing us the junior monsters in the reading audience, to discuss diet. The monster we're seeing on the pages has a wonderful recipe for a sandwich, he says, featuring copious earwax, snot, and various articles of used footwear. But when we tell him we're more a fan of human foodstuffs like "cookies, fruit, chocolate, pasta" and less of the onion juice – why, he finds us monstrous. He does kowtow to our wishes and adds a strawberry – but that's where the problems really begin…

This is, as I say, a way to show routine human food the ideal choice, without hectoring about healthy goodies only. It's also a fun enough book, that will never once appear to be a dietary lesson, which means that the series which just started as a meta whimsy of a monster on the page talking to us monsters reading the book (https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4972363330), and then went on to consider the lullaby (https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5969602575), has gone from daftness to actual purpose and use. And still remained monstrously good fun. A strong four stars.