ABC's of Monsters

hanna yanovska

illustrations by Inna cherniak Kharkiv

2017

This evil wizard you can see Has bought an English ABC. He boils it hard and says: “Radanster!

Let every letter be a monster!�

And here comes A – it’s now Arark, As big and fierce as mighty shark.

With awful teeth and sticky tails She catches apes and ants and snails.

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B is a creature called Boorang.

He’s blue, he likes to beat and bang.

He scares monsters saying: “Boo!” And smaller monsters bite him too.

Boorang

Cincin Cincin is from Chinese empire.

He’s creepy, he can spout fire.

Sometimes he comes to Yellow sea, Enjoying chili pepper tea.

D is now monster Drandy, He’s a real monster dandy: He has moustache sticking high And a real dragon tie!

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Ezzy Doctor Ezzy in his lab Turns an eagle into a crab Than the crab into a cat He experiments like that.

Flying Floo The Flying Floo is full of gloom, He flies on special pirate broom.

He has no fear of the flies, But is afraid of rats and mice.

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The letter G is giant Grook.

He has a very scary look!

He takes whatever he can grab And listens to awful gangsta-rap.

Hock haunts abandoned skating-rinks, He plays alone and always wins.

But if you happen there at night, He will be hooting with delight.

Idont is never saying “Please”, He always cries: “I don’t like this!”

That’s why sometimes your dinner flies.

He’s not ideal monster, guys.

Idont

Jurba Jurba lives in jungle of Java And she eats volcanic lava.

Just in case, she has her claws, Jagged teeth and mighty jaws.

Kooruk Do keep away from Kooruk, kid.

He lives in Khufu pyramid.

But when he finds a tasty berry, He is not bad, but kind and merry.

Lurpy Under the couch, Lurpy lies And listens to films or lullabies.

He’s dusty, puffy, even nice, But has too much of fleas and lice.

Moragnet M is for monster called Moragnet He combs his tangled hair with a magnet.

He’s middle-sized, his teeth are white And mulberry gives him his might.

Nerp is naughty and he knows it, He is banging nails to show it!

All the monsters cannot top him, Angry neigbours cannot stop him!

Nerp

Orna Orna likes organic food, She is now in happy mood.

She is going out soon With her octopus Oo-loon.

Pajano This petty pest is called Pajano, He’s fond of cheese called Parmigiano.

That’s why Italians always put A monster-trap near the food.

Quetone The Queen of monsters is Quetone.

She sits on gilded quilted throne.

She queeps mosquitos in the quage (Sorry, keeps mosquitos in the cage) And is quite cute when not in rage.

This risky monster is Repake.

He rides away with big red cake.

He stole it from a shop in Rome And now he is almost home.

Repake

S is a triplet: Soolg and Solg, And their sister Soodlewolg.

They are too small to scare you, guys, So they are simply eating pies.

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When Tailger turns his mighty tail, When Tailger starts to sing and wail, Tornado comes from Texas state, So we must hide from it and wait.

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The monster Ugr lives underground, He has his breakfast upside down.

His paws are very dirty – ugh!

They don’t upset untidy Ugr.

This is very spiky Vuff, He can hiss and he can puff.

He eats vegetables and berries In the cosy bushy valleys.

Wol Wol is like owl, he woofs and hoots, He wakes the bats in Western woods.

Sometimes he whistles, sometimes he weeps.

When morning comes, Wol often sleeps.

X-roo’s an expert, as he thinks, In all extreme explosive things.

He’s now making fireworks And crying proudly: “It works!”

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Yucko This is Yucko. If you leave Dirty spoons around, believe That you are not very lucky: Yucko comes and makes them yucky.

Zuzie

Zuzie’s making zazaroop This is buzzy buggy soup.

She is making toad pies, With zucchini, crumbs and rice.

Üllag

Üllag lives at waterfall Eating cucumbers and all.

He plays music with his belly, With no radio and telly.

Õ ngvin

Õngvin swims in Õhne river He can make you cry and shiver: He can howl and he can snort But he’s slow: his legs are short.

Ö fel Ö is now for monster Öfel When he jokes, he’s really awful.

Look: he is enchanting shoes With a potion that he brews.

Žudr

Žudr is catching flies on purpose, He is making flying circus: Flies perform unusual tricks: Singing “žžž” and carrying sticks.

Äri

Šobster

Äri is exited much Reading “Äripäev” at lunch, For this evening he will go To the super-horror-show!

Look at underwater Šobster!

He is bigger than a lobster, He rides sharks and scares whales, He pulls mermaids by the tails!

This is a witch from Etna mount.

She cannot read, but she can count, She’s found some volcanic clay, And she is making numbers, hey!

One is very tall and thin, And she knows everything.

She looks very serious, but One has kind and lovely heart.

And here comes her sister Two, She likes to sing: “Too-doo, too-doo!”, She has a swan neck, nice and long, But swans don’t sing this happy song.

Four is next in our list.

He is shaking angry fist, And with very angry cries Four is fighting house flies!

Three is extremely crooked and lean.

Sometimes she makes her house clean.

She takes a new lamp from her shelf And always changes it herself.

Five is pretty, five is good.

She’s in supermodel mood.

If you say her nose is long, She will say that you are wrong.

Six has fat and round body, But she cheers everybody.

Six will never miss a chance Of a happy jumping dance!

Seven’s nose is in the air, She is walking everywhere With her creepy lovely pets: Their names are Sam and Betse.

Eight is quite a likeable lady, And she loves all insects badly.

She’s herself like lovely bug, Like a doll or puppy pug.

The big-headed Nine is lean, She is on the trampoline.

She is singing jumpy song That her braid is very long.

One has married round Zero, He is strong like superhero.

They are Ten from now - and Here comes the happy end!