Laura Numeroff's 10-Step Guide to Living with Your Monster

This was a hilarious book. I really liked it because of what it was about and also the illustrations. The book was a 10-step guidebook to living with a monster. The words were well written and it was fun to read. For example, “Hold his hand and make sure he gets a lollipop. Do not give him the green lollipops.” This line was from the instructions to take him to the vet. This would be fun for kids because most of them have pets so they could pretend that their pet is a monster to make this book more relatable. The illustrations helped the book along. Because the text was short on each page the pictures helped guide the book. There was no big picture of this book it is just for entertainment.

This is another really cute book by Laura Numeroff. The character is a monster and it gives you 10 steps to learn how to care for it. This book is really cute for younger children because of the artwork and learning how to care for your monster. Some of the steps include: Buying your monster, taking your monster to the vet, and many others that are really silly. I also liked this book because despite using a monster as the main character, the steps can teach kids how to care for anything, such as a pet or maybe even a new sibling. Another important aspect that I noticed was that the style of this book drifted from her other books. This is written as a step by step guide and most of her other stories are written in rhyme. I think show more children will really enjoy this book! show less

I'm not really sure what to make of this book. I loved Laura Numeroff's If You Give A ... series, but this one didn't delight as much - with me or with my one-child audience. I'm not really quite sure that children, even on the older end, will get the spoof. And some parts I just didn't find all that funny. Example: "Step 9. Grooming your monster. Get your monster used to brushing his teeth. This won't be easy. Give your monster a bubble bath every month." Huh? That's not anywhere near as clever as Ms. Numeroff's prose in the If You Give A... series of books. Even the child I was babysitting was asking me why after that one, and I'm sorry to say I didn't have much of an explanation. I had thought this title would be fun, but I was show more disappointed to find that it fell short of expectations. show less

This is a cute book to have in the classroom library for younger kids. It's all about monsters that are in a child's room and what a kid should do so they aren't scared of them anymore. It talks about what to feed the monsters, playing with the monsters, taking them to the doctor and so on. It's a very cute book with interesting pictures. Students could even draw their own monsters that they think or used to think lived in their room.

This book takes a child through the steps of buying a monster and taking care of it. It is cute because it gets children to use their imaginations throughout the book. It is a fun book to get children engaged in the reading. There are so many activities that can take place after reading this book. The story is just supposed to be fun and has kids enjoy reading it.

This was not one of my favorite books, but the illustrations were awesome in it! I definitely think this is a book a little boy would enjoy especially since it is all about monsters. The illustrations were so colorful and elaborate that it just made the book so much fun to look it!

This book is a guide to living with a monster. In a comical way it tells students what they need to know about picking one out, taking it to the vet, naming it, feeding it, playing with it, singing with it, taking it out, teaching it to sit, and putting it to sleep. This book is so good. It is very cute and could spark some drawings of monsters.
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