Synopsis
When a monster is born, there are two possibilities--
Either it's a faraway-in-the-forests monster, or...
it's an under-your-bed monster.
If it's a faraway-in-the-forests monster, that's that.
But if it's an under-your-bed monster all sorts of comical things can happen.
This subversive monster story explores the hilarious possibilities of what if...
Read it at bedtime and laugh your pajamas off...
or read it during the day and laugh your socks off!
Children's Literature
From the time a monster is born, just as when a baby is born, it faces a lifetime of possible choices. First of all, it is either a faraway-in-the-forests monster or it is an under-your-bed monster. In each of the choices, one ends with "that's that," but the other moves on to two more possibilities. The under-your-bed monster could eat you, or you make friends and take it to school, and so the crazy amusing possibilities continue. Of course, if it eats your principal The choices lead the monster to sleep under an umbrella instead of in an expensive hotel, to give a kitchen girl a rose and fall in love, to kiss and either have the monster turn into a handsome young man or the girl into a monster. In the final round of choices, we find we have come full circle. The comic fantasy provides gross monsters with heavy black outlines, scumbled green-yellow bodies, red horns on nose and forehead, and orange and blue eyeballs, but the settings are naturalistic, with the contrast adding to the humor. Varying page layouts and typefaces spark the visual impact. There are never too many monster books as long as they add something new.