Review: Instructions Recieved; Now I Need My Monster
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 18, 2012
This is a real instruction manual because it has logical (but not easy to follow) rules. I bet all kids have heard their parents complain about this situation. It has arrows pointing to various part of a monster giving further pieces of information which any child can see are extremely important to safety and are very funny. Terms are used that ring familiar and put a child reader in a parent role like, "Once you buy them one thing, they'll expect the entire store." The dry humor builds page after page using some big words and simple ideas. Aren't unfamiliar terms always part of any instruction manual?This might be just the thing to get a reluctant reader to love books! I write and illustrate children's books and love to play with words and introduce new ones by immediately explaining them and using them again in the flow of the story soon, as in the series 'Leafman Attacks'Leafman Attacks: 1 Leafman, Who's Beefman?.