Zits from Python Pit

Monster Juice #6

by M.D. Payne, Keith Zoo (Illustrations)

After defeating an evil mummy in Egypt, Chris and the others are mystically summoned to the heart of the Congo by a new evil. There they find a legendary serpent beast that has infected all the kids with nasty, blistery, snake-filled zits. Together with their monster friends, the kids have to uncover the secret of the Python Pit and defeat this new slithering threat before it’s too late.

192 pages, Paperback

First published April 21, 2015

About the author

M. D. Payne was born in 1978 in New Hampshire to an Air Force Family and grew up in 11 different homes in Maine, California, Idaho, Florida, Virginia, Ohio, and Germany. As a child, he was a ravenous reader. While in elementary school, his favorite past-time was creating cut-and-paste scrapbooks of presidential facts that remain in his mother's possession today. M. D. has been a fan of Halloween and horror into adulthood, so he jumped at the chance to write marketing and creative copy for the famed GOOSEBUMPS series in 2007, and was soon pulled into the world of kidlit. He wrote his first books, the gross-out horror series MONSTER JUICE, from 2012–2014, and then became involved in the NY Times bestselling WHO WAS series, tackling spooky titles like "Who Is R. L. Stine?" and "What is the Story of Scooby-Doo?"

Before M. D. was a writer, he was a Jazz DJ, wrote scripts for Jazz at Lincoln Center Radio, and was associate producer on Essentially Ellington recordings and public radio programs such as "Honky Tonks, Hymns, and the Blues" and "W.C. Handy’s Blues." He took that decade of experience and poured it into the WHO WAS book on Jazz legend Duke Ellington. "Who Was Duke Ellington?" will be available December 1, 2020.

A fan of kids, reading, and especially kids who read, M. D. gives presentations on reading and writing to children and parents alike at numerous schools around the country, and around the world via Skype. He lives in New Jersey with his wife and two daughters.

Reviews

[Stephanie Tournas · Rating 2 out of 5]

Chris, or "He Who Would Save Us", and his posse of seven monsters and the mysterious Director Z are on the Congo River, covered with mud and zits. They must find and defeat a monstrous serpent before it's too late. Chris has the "powerstone", the source of his strength but also his occasional madness. Filled with creepy creatures and slimy monsters, the group experiences excessive farting, and occasionally employs the emergency fart call along their way.

You might have to be a nine year old into gross-out humor to enjoy this.

[brandie whelan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wonderful!

My son is 10 and loves the Monster Juice books as well as Spirit Animals. They are great for the imagination.