audleigh's review against another edition
4.0
How do you know that's not your mommy anymore? Inside this book you will learn how to identify the signs that mommy has become one of the Living Dead. You're never too young to prepare for the Zombie Apocalypse.
booksdogsandjess's review against another edition
3.0
This is cute and sort of funny but my 5 year old was like no way. I think that if it wasn't about Mummy and about the fact that you can't stay with Mummy he would have enjoyed it more. But I am not the asshole (my brother) who got it for him nor am I the one who read (half of it) to him.
Here is where Ronan (my 5 year old) eyes got wide
"When her voice sounds just like Daddy's snore, that's not your Mommy anymore"
I pulled a Liz Lemon and was all "Shut it down!"
The reason my brother got this was that zombies and Ronan are sort of joke to him.
Queue Jessi story: You might this shocking but I am not religious....I'll let you collect yourself from that bombshell.
Anyway this past Easter when Ronan was at daycare he asked about the Easter story. Now his daycare provider is religious, this is not a bombshell as the amount of crucifixes hanging on the walls of just the entryway number at least 4(in just the entryway!) so she tells him the story about Jesus' resurrection and of course Ronan says"Whoa was Jesus a zombie? cause my Mum says you want no part of zombies"
Blasphemous? Not really, but she was a little rattled by it. In the end when the story was relayed to me Ronan piped up to say that he was still unclear about the rabbit and the eggs, which I am unclear as well, clearly a case for google. Anyway my brother felt this was the funniest thing Ronan had said in some time. When I was upset about him and the book he said he was teaching him the valuable lesson that you have to be bit by another Zombie to become a zombie and as far as he knows that did not occur in the bible. Unhelpful.
I think 7 year olds and up may find this more fun and get that its a joke, but judge yourself.
Here is where Ronan (my 5 year old) eyes got wide
"When her voice sounds just like Daddy's snore, that's not your Mommy anymore"
I pulled a Liz Lemon and was all "Shut it down!"
The reason my brother got this was that zombies and Ronan are sort of joke to him.
Queue Jessi story: You might this shocking but I am not religious....I'll let you collect yourself from that bombshell.
Anyway this past Easter when Ronan was at daycare he asked about the Easter story. Now his daycare provider is religious, this is not a bombshell as the amount of crucifixes hanging on the walls of just the entryway number at least 4(in just the entryway!) so she tells him the story about Jesus' resurrection and of course Ronan says"Whoa was Jesus a zombie? cause my Mum says you want no part of zombies"
Blasphemous? Not really, but she was a little rattled by it. In the end when the story was relayed to me Ronan piped up to say that he was still unclear about the rabbit and the eggs, which I am unclear as well, clearly a case for google. Anyway my brother felt this was the funniest thing Ronan had said in some time. When I was upset about him and the book he said he was teaching him the valuable lesson that you have to be bit by another Zombie to become a zombie and as far as he knows that did not occur in the bible. Unhelpful.
I think 7 year olds and up may find this more fun and get that its a joke, but judge yourself.
xterminal's review
4.0
Matt Mogk, That's Not Your Mommy Anymore: A Zombie Tale (Ulysses Press, 2011)
Not terribly sure I have anything to say about this charming-yet-nasty little volume that hasn't already been said, but by cracky, it's a bundle of fun. I'm not too sure it's going to get read to the kid any time soon (and I say this as someone with a kid who at the impressionable age of five months is already riveted by movies like La Horde and The Call of Cthulhu), because some of the (wonderful) illustrations have details that are perhaps a bit on the disturbing side for younger eyes, but as a zombie-loving adult, I found it irresistible, in the tradition of “this looks a lot like kidlit, but it really isn't” (think Goodnight Keith Moon here, but without riffing on an existing classic). Whether you do or do not have little ones running around, if you're a zombie fan, I can't recommend this one highly enough. ****
Not terribly sure I have anything to say about this charming-yet-nasty little volume that hasn't already been said, but by cracky, it's a bundle of fun. I'm not too sure it's going to get read to the kid any time soon (and I say this as someone with a kid who at the impressionable age of five months is already riveted by movies like La Horde and The Call of Cthulhu), because some of the (wonderful) illustrations have details that are perhaps a bit on the disturbing side for younger eyes, but as a zombie-loving adult, I found it irresistible, in the tradition of “this looks a lot like kidlit, but it really isn't” (think Goodnight Keith Moon here, but without riffing on an existing classic). Whether you do or do not have little ones running around, if you're a zombie fan, I can't recommend this one highly enough. ****
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