The terribles. 1, Welcome to Stubtoe Elementary / Travis Nichols.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780593425718
- ISBN: 0593425715
- Physical Description: 223 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Random House, [2022]
Content descriptions
Summary, etc.: | Told in alternating chapters, comics, poems, charts and activities, this spooktacular story introduces the monsters who have settled down on the quiet island of Creep's Cove, giving readers a peek into the lives of vampires, mummies, gelatinous balls of goo and more! |
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Subject: | Monsters > Juvenile fiction. Schools > Juvenile fiction. School children > Juvenile fiction. |
Genre: | Humorous fiction. Monster fiction. School fiction. |
Available copies
- 2 of 2 copies available at GRPL.

BookList Review
The Terribles #1: Welcome to Stubtoe Elementary
Booklist
From Booklist, Copyright (c) American Library Association. Used with permission.
Welcome to the island of Creep's Cove, where all the monsters (and, the author notes, "monster-adjacent humans") of the world have settled down to enjoy bagels from Knifeteeth Mike's Bagel Wasteland and send the kids to school. Along with meeting several eager learners (there's Lizzie, a kaiju with anger issues who complains that her moms destroy cities but hassle her if she breaks a few flowerpots, and Vlad, the vampire who discovers that he won't explode in sunlight if he lets classmate Bobby, a gelatinous blob, shlarf him down), readers can watch a scary educational film about humans, see young Frankie literally make a new friend from her single dad's spare-parts bin, or select a bagel from a menu that includes "blue cheese (not on purpose)." Nichols strews simply drawn cartoon art in a mix of single and sequential panels throughout and caps his series kickoff with a glossary of blobby "Glob Talk" for those who might wish to, for instance, glurf rather than yell, or shlarf rather than engulf their lunches.