Review: 'Monsters reach out to teach because they care!'
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 5, 2013
Samantha Foster has the most fun ways of teaching children values and ideas. She takes a potentially challenging idea (monsters in this case) and turns that around into something not to fear but from which to learn.She starts with the Hearing Monster who has many ears  - the point being that children should listen to all their peers AND their parents. There is the School Monster who simply wants children to do everything the teacher asks so that homework will become easy.  There is a Vegetable Monster who encourages replacing vegetables for candy and sodas, eating as much vegetables as you please to make the body strong.  The Rules Monster encourages children to do what is right. And finally there is the Friend Monster who `wants you to be friends with everyone so no one will feel blue.'The point Foster is making with this beautifully illustrated well rhymed book is that things children may think are monsters are in truth helpers `to teach you to do what is right.'  This is a fun book that children will love and learn to overcome fears and discover the life enhancements that are outlined so well.  Grady Harp, May 13