He heals himself after someone pretty much drives a boat through his head. Cthulhu has risen once and is likely to rise again. The dreams of the Old Ones may influence the dreams of people. There are definitely some things you probably don’t need to tell everyone. On the other hand, if you’re ready to discuss the gray areas of honesty, this might provide a good place to start. If you’re trying to convince your kids that honesty is the best policy, you may not want this book that explicitly discusses how some things need to be kept secret for the good of the world. There’s a lot of insanity and madness going on in this book, and if that’s an issue that’s sensitive to you, the book may be problematic. Mental illness is a core part of the Cthulhu mythos (learning the truth will make you insane!), with all the potentially problematic and ablist issues that brings up. That part, thankfully, is not illustrated.
The most potentially troubling one is that a bunch of people are kidnapped-the illustration makes them look like kids (possibly the kids from The Cat in the Hat?)-and on the next page they’re sacrificed by cultists. Most of it is treated pretty lightly, but people start dying on page 2 or so. The rhyming text and Seussian illustrations prevent the book from being particularly scary itself, but the death and insanity throughout might be a bit much for more imaginative young readers! SPOILER ALERT: Things you might want to know before suggesting this to your kid Death Seuss books, and the rhythm of the text is great. I spotted homages to specific illustrations from several of my favorite Dr. Seuss expert, and the book is a delightful parody on that front.
I’m far from a Cthulhu expert, so I can’t speak to the accuracy of the text, but I am kind of a Dr. If you’re the kind of parent getting a Cthulhu picture book for your kids, you don’t need me to spell out all the nightmare-inducing (literally!) things that happen in the book. I wouldn’t use it as bedtime reading for your 5 year old, but my teenagers and their friends found it really funny. Seuss, it tells the basics of the Cthulhu mythos. Lovecraft’s The Call of Cthulhu for Beginning Readers looks like a children’s easy reader book, but it’s definitely not one! Written, illustrated, and bound in the style of Dr.
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