num_pages: 32
description: Crack open this tale of family and fright as cute as it is creepy. All the animals in the zoo have friends and family to play with and love. All of them that is except Quackenstein. Lonely and bitter in his ramshackle corner he decides to adopt an egg. He cares for it diligently waiting until the moment when it will hatch a baby duck of his own. On a dark and stormy night the egg hatches Quackenstein cackles and lightning strikes but waitwhats this? That babys not a duck! What will he do? Where can he hide? And will Quackenstein ever find someone (or something) to cuddle? Sudipta Bardhan-Quallens clever rhyming text is perfectly paired with cute and spooky art from Brian T. Jones.Jones gleefully uses every clich in the book from lurid lettering and backgrounds to effective use of silhouettes and shadows. Bardhan-Quallen too takes advantage of horror-movie tropes but she also mixes in some instruction in the form of cumulative nouns for animals. The surprise twist at the end happily resolves Quacks fatherless state. -Kirkus Reviews
language: English
title: Quackenstein Hatches a Family
publisher: Harry N. Abrams