It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Zombies by Michael P. Spradlin

Reviewed for MonsterLibrarian.com

It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Zombies by Michael P. Spradlin

Harper, 2009
ISBN: 9780061956430
Available: New

The book’s premise is simple, Christmas carols rewritten as zombie Christmas carols. The book includes such favorites as “Zombie the Snowman”, “I Saw Mommy Chewing Santa Claus”, “We Three Spleens” and “Good King Wenceslas Tastes Great”. There are familiar songs that tweens will find hilarious, and more obscure ones that adults will love as well. This is an excellent gift book, and could be fun for sing-alongs at horror-themed library holiday parties for older kids or adults as well. The illustrations are somewhat gory (rotting bodies, zombies decorating Christmas trees with entrails and bare brains). Being black and white blunts them, but kids under ten or so might be bothered. Still, it’s a great community or group interaction type book that will make people laugh and get new holiday songs stuck in their heads. Recommended for gifts, collections for zombie lovers and older kids/adults.

Contains: Mildly disturbing art, humorous/cartoonish descriptions of violence