Thursday, 4 November 2010
How Many Monsters
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Francis Lincoln,
How Many Monsters,
lift the flap book,
Maria Van Der Meer,
New Edition Publishers
How Many Monsters - A Monster Counting Book
Written and Illustrated by Maria Van Der Meer
Amazon Link: £6.29 (Large hardback)
Try as I might to avoid bringing home Monster books from the library, there are so many. When Charlotte picked this book out and clung to it for dear life, no amount of cajoling or persuading could convince her to leave it behind. The good news is that the monsters in this book are a happy jolly bunch and there are plenty of "lift the flap" pages to keep youngsters occupied (though here's an open question to publishers and authors - why do lift the flap books invarlably not have a lift-flap on the very last page of the book? We've seen that quite a few times).
A couple of moments of concern occured when the book talks about monsters hiding under the bed (do other parents have a toddler who's convinced that this is where monsters live even if you take every measure to convince them otherwise?) and another monster talking about eating little boys - but the pace and mood of the book is light hearted and jocular enough to gloss over these bits.
Charlotte's best bit: Inevitably it's going to be the monster showing off his pants on page 1
Daddy's favourite bit: Monsters bothering grannies!
Rating: 4 out of 5
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