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"The Caldecott Medalist makes wonderful use of innovative production techniques in this ingenious offering... A joy to read aloud, the simple story entertains even as it helps its audience master common fears. Emberley's striking approach should win him new fans aplenty." - Publishers Weekly
"A graphic delight... This imaginative, original work is a most friendly way in which children can take control over their own 'monsters' or nightmares." - School Library Journal
"This striking picture book takes a hands-on approach to dealing with nighttime fears. In fact, it may be hard for parents to pry their kids' hands "off" the book and get them to bed... this picture book promises to jazz up any story time and to give individual children a measure of control over at least 'one' monster." - Booklist
"The Caldecott Medalist makes wonderful use of innovative production techniques in this ingenious offering... A joy to read aloud, the simple story entertains even as it helps its audience master common fears. Emberley's striking approach should win him new fans aplenty." - Publishers Weekly
"A graphic delight... This imaginative, original work is a most friendly way in which children can take control over their own 'monsters' or nightmares." - School Library Journal
"This striking picture book takes a hands-on approach to dealing with nighttime fears. In fact, it may be hard for parents to pry their kids' hands "off" the book and get them to bed... this picture book promises to jazz up any story time and to give individual children a measure of control over at least 'one' monster." - Booklist
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Caldecott Award-winning author-artist Ed Emberley has created an ingenious way for children to chase away their nighttime fears. Kids can turn the pages of this die-cut book and watch the Big Green Monster grow. Then, when they're ready to show him who's in charge, they'll turn the remaining pages and watch him disappear! This lavish reissue features dramatic die-cut eyes and sparkling foil on the cover.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This has become one the best books I've found for working with students age 3-6 learning English as a second language. The pictures that layer, first building the monster step by step and then taking it apart again, are ingenious. It gets the children roaring with laughter. The text is perfect in its simplicity and allows ample opportunity for scaffolding as they learn. For example, early on I read the text and also gave the words in their primary language. Then I encourage them to repeat after me or say with me and the text really supports this with the "go away monster" parts. Later they can fill in the end of the sentences with me just saying, "This monster has ___", and then they fill in the correct words such as eyes, nose, etc. You can build from there to include color eyes, nose, etc. Finally, they are telling me the story with little input on my part. They love saying the go away with the correct facial part and then seeing the results on the next page. A fun follow up is we create our own monsters after and they introduce them to the group describing their features using the English vocabulary learned. Although I wanted to focus on how great this is for early language learners I think it would delight most children in this age range in their native language as well. The graphics are highly engaging and entertaining. Since I work with groups it was nice to have a book that is a bit larger then many of the typical size children's book too. The book is well crafted and sturdy as well. After two years of working with multiple groups of small children with eager hands though it requires replacement and is such a treasure in my collection of teaching materials its well worth it.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
It is fun and it works! Designed to help talking about child's sleeping problems through gaming and learning process of reading a book. My 18 months old son James loves the colourful drawings and the badtime tantrums are thing of the past in our house. I highly recommend it to any parent in despair.
Format:Hardcover
This book is excellent we have had to replace a copy that has been read to death and was dropping to pieces.The children love it.
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brilliant for 3-4 yrs
a lovely book for little ones, as within no time they can 'read' the text (with the visual clues)to you. Read more
Published 14 months ago by Michelle
An instant and original hit
My children (4 and 2 years 9 months) loved this. The pages are unusual - black with cut outs. They particularly enjoyed being able to shout out "Go away" on every page of the... Read more
Published on 27 May 2002
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