The Hungry Thing Returns

The original Hungry Thing was one of my favorite books when I was a kid, but I hadn't realized there were sequels. I found this one at my son's school last year in a pile of giveaway books (of which I got first dibs since I'm the school librarian) and took it home and we read it over and over again. He loved it - and I thought the baby Hungry Thing was just adorable! And the grown-up Hungry Thing is even cuter in these illustrations than he was the first time around. We promptly ordered the first Hungry Thing (since my old copy disappeared years ago - probably in my parents' basement somewhere) and the third one, The Hungry Thing Goes to a Restaurant, and we read all of these frequently, but this one is special to my son and me because the big and little Hungry Things remind us of ourselves.

I remember my parents reading this book to me as a child. It was one of my all time favorites! I LOVED it! The story and pictures are just wonderful. I've been looking for a copy for my own children via bookstores without success for the past couple years. I can't even begin to say how THRILLED I am to have found it here.

This was one of our family's favorite books to gather around; even the parent without reading duties could not resist joining the gleeful huddle around the charmingly illustrated pages. The dialogue begs the reader to animate the tale by giving a voice to The Hungry Thing, and the conflict in the story is one that even very young children leap to solve, shouting out the answers to the clueless grownups on the page. I recommend this book without reservation as a memorable delight.