Dad: well that worked out. I saw this book sitting on a table at my library and gasped. I had to have it! It's absolutely one of their favorites. After 6 weeks of almost daily reading, it's finally having to go back to the library tomorrow and they're super bummed. Of all the many books we get at the library, this is one I'll actually have to buy for them. Even the bits inside the cover makes them bust up laughing. The kids' change just gets a single line at the end and it left me wanting more, not necessarily more at the end, just more of them through the book.
I know some reviewers have found it highly effective in helping the whining at home, but I think the kids should have had more coverage in the book. Still, when whining occurs in my kids now, I ask if the monsters are coming and they laugh and the whining stops, so I guess it's working for us too! Dave Schaafsma. Author 5 books Why is this rated so low on Goodreads?!
It's funny! And maybe not so much for kids exclusively, okay, though I will ask my kids to rate it, too, and adjust my rating accordingly and add their pithy hopefully unwhiny comments. Kaplan is funny! Is it the eating children part, as barbaric!? It's a joke! No children spoiler alert get eaten in this book! Sorry to disappoint you. This is one of this shaggy dog stories, mainly to get whiny kids to stop whining and start giggling, though in the process, the monster, whose wife also whines, has to figure out what recipe to use to eat the whiny children.
Spoiler alert, it ends with a delicious cucumber sandwich recipe, with no kids in it. It may be a whole family story as much for beleaguered parents as kids. The cool color green makes the book attractive, the quick sketches are not elaborate or special, but they are fine! Let me start by saying-- I love the title and premise of this book. What parent hasnt , at some point, needed a monster to straighten up the whiny child. However the biggest turn off for me is that it uses the word "hate" several times.
In our household and school thats a bad word. To me "hate" should not be used in childrens books, especially ones geared towards a younger age.
Granted, the negative tone was not toward a person, but still. The drawing is crude and just down right creepy to me. BUT on a good note, my daughter now wants to try cucumber sandwiches thanks to the included recipe :. Funny book, but I think the humor would be over preschoolers' heads.
Indeed, I think this might be slightly scary to them if they don't catch the humor. But a good reader such as my sister would probably read it so well that the young 'uns would get the humor. Even so, for me I would keep this more at school-age.
And maybe also recommend it as a read-alone or lap-read for at least ages 5 and up. Unless you are a parent who really wants to teach a child how annoying whiny is. For me, the story was fun and the simple illustrations worked well. Oh, this made me laugh. It's like one of those stories that you tell, off the cuff, to disbelieving children because you're feeling a bit churlish and out-of-sorts but then you wind up enjoying the story too much and it becomes fun. And for all you whiny children out there - monsters WILL try to eat you.
You'd better hope you're lucky enough to wind up in the clutches of indecisive monsters, such as the one in this story. Sometimes it's hard to figure out if you're in the mood for Indian Food. A thoroughly enjoyable book with an inherent threat to naughty children.
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Also, Kaplan does not talk down to children in an effort to include them in the jokes or buffer the potential nightmare-inducing concept of the story. A monster steals them and takes them to his "lair on the bad side of town. The monster plops Henry and Eve into a lovely wooden bowl and begins to make a salad. The children begin to whine about the wooden bowl and sitting on lettuce. At this point, while the monsters are increasingly scary and capable, they also begin to reveal very human natures.
When the monster's wife walks into the kitchen and tastes the salad dressing she screams, "I hate cilantro! Before he is done with the new dressing, a neighbor drops and berates the monsters for wasting whiny children on a SALAD. Why, he has been dreaming of whiny-child burgers all week!
The wife grumbles but agrees with the change of plans, knowing it will mean she will have to clean off the grill, which is disgusting. This goes on and on as the monsters are unable to get the fire started, causing the neighbor's cousin to kick a hole in the fence. Then they consider making a cake of them but the monster's wife thinks her bottom is too big and she should not eat cake, plus she hates baking. A simple dish of rice and a nice "whiny-child vindaloo" gets them all thinking for a time but, as the narrator thoughtfully notes, "Sometimes it's hard to figure out if you are in the mood for Indian food.
Kaplan accomplishes the amazing feat of writing a story that is irresistible to children monsters eating children and infinitely entertaining to parents. Don't use obscene, profane, or vulgar language.
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