The Beastly Baby Pdf

[Carlito Austin]

Ormaybe you'd rather go to the Fun Zone. Look out! Will you drown in the Bottomless Ball Pit? Will you find your way out of the Tomb of the Unknown Rat? Just one bit of advice: Whatever you do, don't eat any of that stuff marked "Switch Cheese"!

Your mother has hired a babysitter named Zoe for you and your six-year-old brother, "Stinko". Zoe has whiskers, claw-like fingernails, and a pointy nose. Zoe provides you with a spinner. The spinner offers the choice between fun or games. Whatever it lands on determines which of the two main storylines you will follow. The spinner is reused for a couple of choices, and there are a few activities to do in the "Games" section with a tattooed man named Dare.

The spinner lands on FUN, and Zoe immediately takes you and Stinko to the "Fun zone". before you notice, Stinko is already wondering off, and from listening just for a bit to Zoe's conversation with one of the other babysitters, you quickly find out that the fun zone isn't exactly as fun as it seems. Now you must find Stinko and Escape from the fun zone, before Zoe forces you to help her produce one of the key ingredients she needs for her "Switch Cheese" - and that is grated kid...

The spinner lands on GAMES, causing Zoe to vanish. Now a heavy tattooed man called "Dare" is the one taking care of you. He tells you and Stinko that you must play (and win) all his games if you ever want to go home. If you lose, you will be forced to join KidScare, forever (although there is not a single ending in this Story in which something like that happens).

In story A, instead of looking for Stinko right away, you decide to keep snooping on Zoe. But you accidentally knock over a crate of Switch cheese, and Zoe spots you shortly after. You run for a door with a sign that reads "NO EXIT, EMPLOYEES ONLY", and eventually end up at the heart of the rat people's operation (Along with Stinko, who is now tied up to a lab table). Zoe informs you that you and Stinko were kidnapped because of your "genetic makeup", and that with your help, they might succeed in making the Switch cheese they need to become humans once again.

You open a box that Dare left behind, and find a mirror inside. Dare tells you that if you are in the mirror- you are also in the box. He then shoves you and Stinko inside and closes it down on the both of you. The book states that you'll never win, implying that you're trapped forever.

You and Stinko take an elevator to the office of Kidscare. There, you find a recording from your mother, telling you that your parents extended their trip for another week, meaning that you will be stuck with Dare for that time.

During a game with Dare which has you in danger of turning into a vampire bat, you are instructed to pick a ball that might have a cure. You pick the red ball, and the book states that since vampires love the color red, it's obvious you chose it. You end up being turned into a vampire bat.

After winning some of his games, Dare gives you an option to quit while you're ahead. You take it, causing Dare to turn you into a floating head without a body. He then tells you that you can now quit because you are a HEAD.

Trying to escape from a sand monster, you find a slab that says you must roll a dice to make your next move. After rolling an odd number, both you and Stinko start sinking in quicksand. Dare then tells you that in his games, the odd ones are always out.

A bunch of rats chase you and end up forcing you to enter a door that leads to a giant maze. You look above you and notice a huge rat in a lab coat taking notes. You realize that you are now an experiment, and the book states that you will never escape the maze.

Ellen Jackson is the award-winning author more than fifty-five fiction and nonfiction books for children, including The Mysterious Universe (a Golden Kite honor book) and Earth Mother (which garnered three starred reviews.) She lives with her husband and dog in Santa Barbara, California.

"Babies can be smooth or hairy," writes Jackson, as Wenzel depicts a human baby alongside a kitten and wolf pup. A turn of the page continues the rhyme: "quail or whale or dromedary." The illustrations retain the animals' most prominent characteristics while also emphasizing their eyes. The book includes some scientifically accurate observations, such as natural instincts ("Beaver mamas/ chomp and gnaw,/ using teeth/ just like a saw"), and defense mechanisms ("Baby octopi squirt ink/ Baby skunks cause quite a stink"). But most pages are pure whimsy, such as a charming image of elephant calves tumbling against an adult elephant. Mayhem reigns on a double-page spread where "Puppies slobber,/ kittens spill./ Young gorillas can't sit still./ Mamas gobble, mamas cluck./ Barnyard babies run amok!" Readers can practically hear the open-mouthed hens, geese, roosters and turkeys as chicks scatter across both pages (one stares at the puppy; another seems to squawk at the gorilla).

Author and artist save the best for last: a stop-action series of images of a sloth demonstrates how "Babies muss and fuss and cry--/ but they grow up, by and by." Each iteration of the sloth depicts its slight maturation. "And what awaits them/ when they're grown?" With a turn of the page, the ending brings the life cycle full circle ("Beastly babies of their own"). --Jennifer M. Brown, children's editor, Shelf Awareness

Discover: A joyous rhyming celebration of babies--smooth, prickly, furry and feathered.

This isn't the most well-written book, but it does have a much higher number of mini-games and puzzles than most books in this series, so fans of gamebook novelties should find it somewhat entertaining.... There's a maze, a follow-the-ropes puzzle, a "spinner" like the one used in the first book of this series and various other challenges of luck and skill. The book's continuity is also a bit better than usual.... More reviews by Demian

This book is flat out bizarre, even by the liberal standards of this series. It's just too out there for me. I can understand how the whole idea of a baby sitter who's really a monster of some kind might make a good gamebook. But a giant rat-creature? Ick. It just seems gross more than silly or funny. Couple that with the whole idea of kid puree or kids shredded to make Switch Cheese or used as lab rats (pun intended?), and it's way, way beyond over-the-top. I appriciate the strange, outrageous humour of this series, but the Beasty Baby-Sitter crossed the line. More reviews by Stockton

The plotline that you follow is totally random. In one, there's only two positive endings that can only be found through a long path with several deaths if you don't make the right decision. The other contains several mini-games that you must win in succession. I liked the mini-games, and, of course, there's a cheater trap. However, there are a few problems that balance the book out, mainly its "one strike and you're out" style and overall goofy feel. More reviews by Waluigi Freak 99

"This ghoulish green zombie baby doesn't want a pacifier it wants your arm! This deadly decoration features a beastly baby feasting on a freshly torn arm! This terrifying toddler is sure to up the ante on your Halloween display. As long as it doesn't get hungry for more..."

My husband Giles and I already have one girl, 22-month-old Kitty, and my second pregnancy had been so different and so much worse than my first, with horrid morning sickness from the outset, that I was starting to panic that there was something radically different about it, i.e. there was that alternative, dreaded gender in the mix.

Out on the street I dialled Giles, with a shaking hand. He feels exactly the same as I do. His adoration, worship, love and fanatical devotion to our daughter since the day of her birth has made the idea of having a boy unthinkable.

When he picked up the telephone he told me he was drawing bees and cats with Kitty in her big drawing book (the one with the flowery cover, and using an assortment of strawberry scented, glittery pens with pink feathers on the ends).

Little girls, with their own interest in wholesome things and willingness to have their hair done and to wear dainty shoes, fit in with this ridiculous pursuit of the picturesque and the perfect in a way that riotous little boys do not.

More to the point, there is no getting away from the fact that my new baby is a boy, and I have no choice but to get used to it. I will have to get used to a different nappy-changing experience and accept that there will be a lot more plastic dinosaurs in the house.

I must put aside my daydreams of Kitty and her little sister holding hands, dressed as fairies or angels. I will have to get used to the house being much noisier and being held up in the kitchen at plastic-cutlass point. I will just have to hope that Kitty and her brother can find things that they like doing together.

In fact, while my husband and I might be worried about a little boy spoiling our vision for a sweet-smelling, calm little family with a fondness for all things pink, Kitty would probably like nothing better than a baby brother with whom she can get muddy.

fuckyeahtattoos: I did this in honor of my cat Mojo. He just turned 10 the other day. I have raised him since he was a day old so he is very special to me. I love the art of Edward Gorey & I love my cat so it was a no brainer when I chose the cat to represent my baby. Most of my tattoos are done by Neil Worth at Forever Yours Tattoo Gallery

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In this delightful rhyming read-aloud, author Ellen Jackson and illustrator Brendan Wenzel introduce readers to all sorts of mischievous baby animals - and the grown-ups who love them no matter what. Featuring puppies that slobber, kittens who spill, and young gorillas who won't sit still, this book is sure to resonate with beastly babies of all ages - and their exasperated moms and dads, too!

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