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The I Am Reading: Perfect Monster - Softcover

Book 27 of 32: I am Reading

Grindley, Sally; Waters, Erica-Jane

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9780753458587: The I Am Reading: Perfect Monster
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0753458586 ISBN 13: 9780753458587
Publisher: Kingfisher, 2005

Synopsis

Badly behaved Mungus Bigfoot is the perfect monster. He's great at making slime pies, causing trouble, scaring old ladies, and saying naughty words. But when Mungus is ordered to instruct sweet little Emily Twinkletoes about how to act like a proper monster, she teaches him a lesson instead!

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About the Author

Sally Grindey is the award-winning author of over a dozen picture books including Shhh! (Andersen), winner of the UK's Children's Book Award, I Don't Want To (Little, Brown), and Wake Up Dad (Doubleday). Her novel Spilled Water won the 2004 Smarties Prize. Her titles for Kingfisher include The Kingfisher Book of Magical Tales.

Reviews

Kindergarten-Grade 2–Mungus Bigfoot is the perfect monster from birth, screaming, biting, and weeing on his mother. Because of his abilities, the Head Monster at school asks him to help Emily Twinkletoes. Mungus tries, but she continues to sing, smile, and tell the truth. As he tutors her, he becomes kinder and begins to adore Emily just as she is. In turn, she demonstrates terrible behavior to keep him out of trouble. Of course, the plot is stereotypical–naughty boy meets nice girl and changes for her because she has touched his true self. Definitions of bad and good are reversed in this setting, but Pat Hutchins's The Very Worse Monster (1985) and Where's the Baby? (1999, both HarperCollins) are much better presentations of the same idea. Watercolor cartoons offer childlike illustrations in this short, five-chapter book aimed at early independent readers. While the text serves up good practice for children learning to read, it won't satisfy students looking for a good, scary book. With pages sprinkled with stars, flowers, and pleasing pastel colors, it's more of a humorous look at how people influence one another in a relationship and an examination of naughty behavior.–Erlene Bishop Killeen, Fox Prairie Elementary School, Stoughton, WI
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Publisher
Kingfisher
Publication date
2005
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0753458586
ISBN 13 
9780753458587
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
46
Rating
  • 3.57 out of 5 stars
    37 ratings by Goodreads