Review: Turning Fright Upside Down!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 19, 2013
Samantha Jones has come up with a book that is comparable to the Maurice Sendak genre - Monsters as they interact with children.  The story is written in rhyme (good rhyme at that) and is illustrated with top-notch colorful drawings of monsters, night and nocturnal bedrooms, AND it carries a message.Nighttime is when children usually fear the appearance of scary things, and sure enough, in this book there are monsters who appear at the  door of a child's bedroom. There is the Green Monster who eats blankets, the Toy Monster who steals toys, The Bitter Monster who is angry all the time, the Curly Monster who can curl your toes with his scream and the Biggest Monster who literally fills the room.  But the secret is that monsters feed on frowns of fear, and if you turn that frown upside down to be a smile, the monsters are thwarted and become your friends.This is a perfect bedtime story - full of colorful scary things that children love and by book's end all the fear of things that go bump in the night are not to be feared at all!  This is a `must have by the bedside book' - especially for children who have nocturnal fears....Grady Harp, March 13