Review: Cute and effective for bringing out real conversation with your child
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 26, 2013
I read this tonight with my 4-and-a-half year old and she loved it. She interacted proactively with virtually all of the questions and comments "from the monster" and even asked to continue the conversation with the monster after the story ended.The most interesting thing for me was that I had no idea she was scared of monsters in her room (or witches and other scary beings) until we had finished the book. The conversation that ensued as a result was great.The only thing I think might have improved this book would be to see some slightly "scarier" style monsters who "are just like us" too. At the end, my daughter said, "I like the nice monsters - I just don't like bad monsters." So, while the book didn't address this directly, and she still feels some monsters are "bad", it did at least open the conversation so I knew what was going on for her. And, then we decided that the nice monster in the book could sleep under her bed to keep the bad ones away :).