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Cute monster kids play in Yambar’s ‘Nursery’
By GUY D’ASTOLFO
YOUNGSTOWN
Chris Yambar has entered the children’s book field with “Midnight Nursery.”
Illustrated with animation-style artwork by Jamie Cosley, the book tells — in rhyme — about a happy place where monster parents drop off their children when they work the graveyard shift:
“They do their Monster things, and make their creepy plans. But they first make sure their babies are in safe and loving hands.”
Yambar will be at Rust Belt Theater, in Calvin Center at 755 Mahoning Ave., tonight to sign copies for one hour before the 8 p.m. and midnight performances of “Living Dead: The Musical.” He also will do signings around Thanksgiving at the Ward Bakery artists open house and Dec. 20-21 at Artists of the Rust Belt’s sale at B&O Station.
The book also can be ordered online through Amazon and Kindle. Signed copies can be ordered by sending $15 (hardbound) or $10 (soft cover), plus $6 priority postage per copy, to Chris Yambar, Suite 337, Ohio One Building, 25 W. Boardman St., Youngstown, OH 44502.
Yambar is well-known for his pop art paintings and also as a comic-book writer and illustrator. He had been kicking around an idea for a children’s book for six years and will publish two more next year.
“Kids love monsters, especially cute baby ones,” he said, adding that Midnight Nursery “is not preachy, but it does have a subtle secret message that being friendly to those who are different from us is important.”