Member Reviews
Such a cute spooky story. My children love stories about monsters and this one was very popular with them. I loved the illustrations- creepy but still a lot of fun.
This is posed as a horror book for children but the format of the narrative is incredibly poorly crafted and is difficult to follow (the words do not contrast with the page colour enough and would thus be difficult for children to read). The images are good but the story itself lets the book down massively. I would not recommend this book.
Fun, cartoony illustrations liven up this picture book about a monster that - you guessed it - likes to eat children. The repetition of the title line will make read-alouds fun, but the sporadically rhyming verse can't decide what it wants to be and the ending falls rather flat. Still, it's great to see a scary picture book, and there is some nice disabled representation with one of the children being in a realistic-looking wheelchair.
Even after decades of devouring Horror, this title struck me and I had to know what it was about. I'm still not sure I approve, but certainly it did catch my attention; and reading the story, I saw that there is a sensible conclusion to it. Children worry about monsters under the bed, in the closet, and outside the window. In this story, that Monster is a real creature, but by the end Rescue Parents solve the problem, equitably and calmly, so the children are all safe and protected.
Not a bad little children's book and I really liked the illustrations. It complimented the book really well.
This book was probably one of the cutest things that I have read ever. It intrigued me from the get go and I just loved everything about it from the drawings to the story and even the way it rhymed sometimes. This book is definitely an underrated jewel.