Review: An original way of coping with monsters
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 28, 2013
This well illustrated book for young children has a slightly unexpected ending. A young child would perhaps understand the story as being literally true, but like most good books this can be read on more than one level.It could also be read as a child coming to terms with her own imagination and behaviour. Either way this is a good book for children.The fear of monsters is common both in children and sometimes in different ways in adults. This reminds me of the time my brother teased our nephew about the "Dreaded Black Thing" in their swimming pool. My brother then invented a way of removing the fear he had created. He told our nephew a secret word which stopped the Dreaded Black Thing. Then late one night our nephew forgot the word, so his mother phoned my brother, waking him up, to get the secret word. Teasing children can be overdone.