Monster under the Shed

The engines have been telling scary stories at bedtime, and now Thomas can’t sleep. He keeps hearing a noise under his shed, and he’s convinced it’s a monster! Learn a lesson with Thomas about how things can get blown way out of proportion when you let your imagination run away with you.

After James tells a scary story, Thomas the tank engine imagines there is a horrible, engine-eating monster coming after him.

The engines have been telling scary stories at bedtime, and now Thomas can’t sleep. He keeps hearing a noise under his shed, and he’s convinced it’s a monster! Learn a lesson with Thomas about how things can get blown way out of proportion when you let your imagination run away with you.

Anne Dahl teaches German at the Deutsches Haus at New York University. She has worked on dictionaries and other languages material for Knopf and other publishers.


From the Paperback edition.