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When a monster is born - almost anything can happen ...Young children will love discovering all the crazy things monsters get up to, brilliantly depicted in award-winning illustrator Nick Sharratt's distinctive style. His dynamic pictures perfectly complement this quirky story about a monster's adventure.
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About the Author:
Sean Taylor is a writer and storyteller, who has just returned to the UK from Brazil. He lives in Bristol with his wife. Nick Sharratt is the creator of numerous picture books, as well as his fiction covers, including the award-winning Pants. He lives in Brighton.
From School Library Journal:
PreSchool-Grade 1—Fittingly, this book's large size, dramatic black backgrounds, and bold colors leap off the page at readers, just like a monster jumping out of a closet. Based on a traditional Brazilian poem, the story looks at the many possibilities created by the birth of a monster: "either it's a faraway-in-the-forests monster, or...it's an under-your-bed monster." For each set of choices there is a dead-end option ("If it eats you, that's that."), and an option that leads to two more possibilities. Following a series of wild twists, in which a principal is eaten and a kitchen girl dumps porridge on a monster's head, the tale comes full circle to the birth of a new monster and the original set of possibilities. Bright colors and a wild variety of fonts burst out from each page, and the potential scariness of the monster is tempered by its round body, buck teeth, and fuzzy hair. Various colors, textured fabrics, and other materials fill in the cartoon line drawings. Tiny leaves create the bushes and grass, the monster's hair is full of swirls, and the porridge contains lumps. With its zany humor, skillful timing of page turns, and over-the-top story line, this is an engaging tale that children will respond to and request again and again.—Suzanne Myers Harold, Multnomah County Library System, Portland, OR
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- PublisherOrchard
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 1843623552
- ISBN 13 9781843623557
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages32
- IllustratorNick Sharratt
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