Dr. Popdoodle's Monsters Sticker Book (A Whitman Book #2177, Western Publishing, 1977) is a 16-page coloring and sticker book celebrating the eponymous physician and his menagerie of monstrous patients that wouldn't look out of place in the universe of Mercer Mayer, if Mercer Mayer couldn't draw very well.
Apparently a one-off character created specifically for this book and not based on any existing property, Dr. Popdoodle's Monsters... bears no credit for author or illustrator (though they may very well have borrowed the concept from Mayer's own Professor Wormbog, whose first appearance was the year prior. You tell me.)
The rear cover is a set of cut-out finger puppets, the only detail I could recall from having once owned this book as a child (and in a desperate bid to identify the title, I launched a general appeal to The Internet at large, to no avail).
Below is the entire contents of the book, including the interior pages with and without stickers applied.
First, the stickers:
PAGE 1: Dr. Popdoodle's Monster Parts:
PAGE 2: Ferocious Fanged Fogglewart
PAGE 3: Scaly-Collared Slurper and Hideous Hairy Howler
PAGE 4: Blue-Browed Belly Belcher
PAGE 5: Crimson-Clawed Flower Muncher
PAGE 6: Five-Footed Fompton and Other Creepies
PAGE 7: Weird Wing-Eared Wooklewok
PAGES 8 and 9 (a spread): Dr. Popdoodle to the Rescue, Ailing Forked-Tongue Xerneruptus
PAGE 10: The Fearful Fraternity with Bat-Winged Groucheroo
PAGE 11: Pig-Snoot Grump and Orange-Eyed Feliney Ogre
PAGE 12: Horrible Health-Minded Gorknockle
PAGE 13: Terrible Two-Toed Tree Chomper
PAGE 14: Scuzzy Snake-tailed Fuzzyflaw and Double-Fanged Dopple Gopple
PAGE 15: Scaly-Tailed Long Snoot Snopple
PAGE 16: Floppy-Eared Claw-and-Scrape
4 years ago
1 comment:
Hello! I JUST recently found the site and it’s great; although it's become something of a want list for me now. (Like this book that I've never heard of....) I'm surprised how little info there is on the internet for old colouring/activity books like this. For example; I’ve been looking for info/copies/scans of some old monster colouring books from around 1979. They were sold as “Monster Colouring Books,” published by Talbotworth from Britain and were super-cheap. I went through a bunch when I was a kid. I still have two; “Swamp Monsters” and “Sea Monsters” and I know there are at least two more: “Flying” and “Space.” I’ve found no info on them over the years. If you have any information, or know anyone who does I’d be very appreciative.
Don C.
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