Unsettling Salad! - Couverture rigide

Reynolds, Aaron

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1665961112 ISBN 13 : 9781665961110

Editeur : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2026

Synopsis

A New York Times bestseller!

From the team behind the New York Times bestselling and Caldecott Medal–winning Creepy Carrots! and its sequels comes the second entry in a spin-off chapter book series in which Jasper Rabbit tells the story of a badger who discovers broccoli can bite back!

Jasper the Rabbit is back! A little older and wiser, he collects creepy stories to share as cautionary tales. If you’re ready for some chills and chuckles alike, tune in as Jasper weaves the yarn of Thadeus Badger and the sticky situation he found himself in.

Now, Thadeus is a typical badger. He and his best friend, Oliver Possum, love burgers as much as they dislike exercise. And they hate eating veggies even more. But when they make a deal with Oliver’s parents to eat an entire salad…well let’s just say the chompers might soon become the chomped. This is a creepy tale after all and even the healthiest things can turn on you.

Join Jasper and Thadeus in this second Creepy Tale chapter book and learn from Thadeus’s mistakes before it’s too late!

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Aaron Reynolds is a #1 New York Times bestselling author of many highly acclaimed books for kids including Creepy Carrots!, Creepy Pair of Underwear!, Creepy Crayon!, The Incredibly Dead Pets of Rex Dexter, and the epic fantasy series Fart Quest. He has a passion for kids’ books and seeing kids reading them. He regularly makes time to visit elementary schools, where his hilarious and heartfelt presentations keep kids spellbound. He lives in Chicago with his wife, two kids, three cats, and anywhere between zero and ten goldfish, depending on the day. Visit Aaron at Aaron-Reynolds.com. 

Peter Brown is the author and illustrator of many bestselling children’s books, including Children Make Terrible Pets, Mr. Tiger Goes Wild, and The Curious Garden. He is also the author of the bestselling middle grade Wild Robot series. He is the recipient of a Caldecott Honor for Creepy Carrots!, two E.B. White Read Aloud Awards, a New York Times Best Illustrated Children’s Book Award, and a Children’s Choice Book Award for Illustrator of the Year. Peter’s website is PeterBrownStudio.com.

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THERE IS A PLACE WHERE the odd intersects with the absurd. Where silliness crisscrosses with fear. Where that which is spooky and weird crashes straight into everything that is goofy and nonsensical.

  The road to this place is paved with words and pages, not concrete and asphalt.

  A guide is required to enter. A fuzzy long-eared companion who, through long experience, has learned to navigate these creepy supernatural byways.

  And there is a price for admission. What is that fee? you ask. You must surrender yourself completely to imagination. To goofiness. And to the unknown.

  Have you surrendered? If so, then your journey begins here.

   

Imagine, if you can, the world of long ago.

  It is an ancient world ruled by fear and folklore. A world where every mystery of the universe is explained by guesswork and superstition.

  What causes the full moon? Easy. An enormous rabbit in the sky makes a huge wheel of cheese, once every month. Mystery explained.

  Why are vegetables healthy? A magic fox goes around at night filling all vegetables with goody-juice. Obviously.

  What makes scary noises in the darkness of the night? Monsters. Plain and simple.

  Fast-forward to the world of today. It is a modern world of logic and science. In this modern world lives a modern reader.

  You.

  And a modern badger.

    THADDEUS BADGER.

  To a modern reader like you and a modern badger like Thaddeus, the ancient ways seem silly. Rational thought explains the mysteries in his life.

  Why does the moon go from empty to full? Rotation. And orbit. And other explainable stuff.

  Why do vegetables make you healthy? Science. There is no magic fox. And goody-juice is the stuff of myth.

  What makes the noises that go bump in the night? Not monsters, that’s for sure. Our great and vast knowledge explains the boogeyman away.

  And yet even in this age of logic, despite our vast understanding of the ways of the world… some mysteries remain.

  Modern badgers like Thaddeus can pretend the mysteries aren’t there. They can squash the unknown with sound scientific arguments. But some mysteries won’t be explained away. They remain, lurking just on the edge of vision. Hiding in the dark. Hungrily lingering in the shadows, just waiting to pull a modern badger…

  … into a

  CREEPY TALE.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1665961112
• ISBN 13: 9781665961110
• Reliure: Relié
• Illustrateur: Brown Peter
• Nombre de pages: 96
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Simon & Schuster; casetta@mondadori.it; ; Via Mondadori 1,; Segrate Milano; 20090; Italie