Just About Says It All

If you want to know what young boys are looking for in a book, all you need is the cover of Adam Rex's

Frankenstein Takes the Cake
Which Is Full of
Funny Stuff Like
Rotting Heads and
Giant Gorillas
and Zombies
Dressed as
Little Girls and
Edgar Allen Poe.
The book, we mean--
not the cake.

Plus librarian appeal--from the inside, an "advertisement":

For the gentle werelibrarian, who's strictly vegetarian, there's nothing like Tofillager, the Meatless Tofu Villager.