All My Friends Are Dead by Avery Monsen, Jory John

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All My Friends Are Dead
by Avery Monsen, Jory John

I read this while riding in a shuttle/van on the way back to the hotel after our staff dinner before the conference for work. Even read in low light, it was morbidly hilarious. It starts with a dinosaur explaining that all his friends are dead. Then come variations of that theme: an old man saying most his friends are dead (then being told now they all are), a yeti saying all his friends are myths (and the fake Loch Ness Monster taking offense), a tree saying all his friends are tables (and a table saying he is not the tree’s friend), and a zombie saying all his friends are undead.

There are dozens of these variations, each clever and funny on its own. But when they’re strung together in a series and given cute illustrations, the result is a book that made me both laugh and coo with sympathy.