Avery Monsen

If you're a dinosaur, all of your friends are dead. If you're a pirate, all of your friends have scurvy. If you're a tree, all of your friends are end tables. Each page of this laugh-out-loud illustrated humor book showcases the downside of being everything from a clown to a cassette tape to a zombie. Cute and dark all at once, this hilarious children's book for adults teaches valuable lessons about life while exploring each cartoon character's unique grievance and wide-eyed predicament. From the sock whose only friends have gone missing to the houseplant whose friends are being slowly killed by irresponsible plant owners (like you), _All My Friends Are Dead_ presents a delightful primer for laughing at the inevitable.

All My Friends Are Dead

Sarah Sammis

All My Friends Are Dead by Avery Monsen and Jory John has been making the rounds at our local BookCrossing group. It looks like a children's book but it's aimed at adults.

The book starts with a dinosaur lamenting that all his friends are dead. It goes from there. There are things like a milk jug saying that all his friends are expired.

Along with the silly observations on life and death are illustrations reminiscent of Mo Willem's easy chapter books. Although designed for adults, it does appeal to children. Both of mine have read it and laughed at it.

Ester Waclavova

A not so children’s kids book. 

I loved it, funny short.

Arturo Hernández

A quite short but insightful book related to death and its impact on... Everything really.

Sophie

cute but lowkey existential crisis inducing

Jk Jensen

Absolutely inspired. This is a children's book that captures the whimsy and creative thinking of childhood while being profound and hilarious.

june

this appeared in my yt recommendations, didn't expect that

Callie Anna

Sabetha Danes

I love this book, makes me smile every time I read it. Life isn't that bad, all your friends could be dead.

Valentina dossi

Grace O'Callaghan

Please tell me no one actually bought this book. It takes five minutes to read and all the jokes have the same punchline for the most part. I just don’t think it’s the kind of thing that needed to be sold. It’s five minutes of a few chuckles (if it’s your kind of humour) and then you forget about it and move on with your life. This is the kind of thing you see in passing on the Internet somewhere.

Even though it’s a children’s book I still think it’s very dumb and simple. I think it’s kind of insulting on childrens’ intelligence and is something that isn’t memorable in the slightest.

The art style is pretty basic which does go with the ‘humour’ as it’s all very simple ‘humour’. Nothing spectacular about it.

The ending paragraph is why I gave it 2 stars instead of one, but even that’s being generous.

Basically, I just can’t see why people would pay for this when it’s the most basic level of humour that doesn’t last longer than a few minutes. There are far better children’s books out there that are actually funny and educational, but also don’t bore adults.

All My Friends Are Dead

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