A Child's Primer of Radioactive Monsters

Meet The Legend of Godzilla. It's a pop-up book for children, or emotionally stunted adults. Wait a second, I don't remember the pop-up books I read in kindergarten starting with nuclear explosions. And are those a group of terrified villagers running for their lives on page two? Talk about not wasting any time on narrative. The coup de grace on the back cover is an obsessively detailed oil painting of Godzilla torching a hapless fleet of merchant vessels. (Damn it, those men had families!)

If this kinda thing had been available when I was a kid, I might've lingered over the genre a bit longer before moving to more "mature" fare (like "Dynamite" magazine, or whatever the hell kids were supposed to graduate to from pop-up books before Pokemon came around.) At any rate, I passed it along to a friend's two-year-old. Within fifteen minutes, it had been ripped to shreds in an orgy of monster appreciation. Such is the Legend of Godzilla.

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[Heather]

Where do you find this book for purchase? If it's still available.
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