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REVIEWING TODAY: THE SQUEEZOR IS COMING BY BECKY BENISHEK WITH ARTWORK BY MATT FLISS

There are monsters, and there are monsters. In The Squeezor is Coming, written by Becky Benishek with artwork provided by Matt Fiss, there are monsters who are afraid of monsters. At least, they are afraid of one monster. Probably not so much because of those “curved horns,” “frightfully fanged grin,” or even the “chillingly sharp claws.” Nope. It’s those “wraparound-you-twice arms!” And if you do not at least subliminally relate to the dreadful fear of imminent suffocation due to early and abundant familial displays of engulfing hugsmanship, well, then you’ve never been a child. And it is just this universal, if buried, ambivalent experience that makes reading this meant-for-children book so delightful, and its message so very clear. How to make people like you, is the question. Or, more important, how to make them let you show them you like them back. This book provides marvelous answers to both.

Becky Benishek and Matt Fiss team up superbly in The Squeezor is Coming to demonstrate the perils of such a monstrous need to share affection, the greatest of which is misinterpreting intentions. In these days, that is not a lightweight problem. One cannot just go around hugging willy-nilly. Trust must be established. And that is what the Squeezor proceeds to do, albeit with a wonderful lack of any ingratiating self-interest or specific agenda. He just wants to help. With professional writing and exquisite illustrations, a universal truth and message come to life through the graces of a monster. And if monsters can make friends with monsters, what’s not left for which to hope?

Joel R. Dennstedt – Top Reviewer for Readers’ Favorite

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