The Monster Who Ate My Peas

A little boy makes a bargain with a monster to get rid of his horrible peas....until he finally comes to his senses and realizes that some things are worse than vegetables.

This story combines an oddly nasty moralistic message with deliciously gruesome illustrations a-la David Catrow. It's difficult to believe in the little boy's sudden conversion to pea-love, but the audience is unlikely to worry about the believability of the story when there's a monstrous vegetable-eating creation to groan over.

ISBN: 978-1561452163; Published September 2001 by Peachtree; Borrowed from the library

Read Aloud.

Genre: Fictional Picture Book.

Lesson: Teaching Kids to eat their vegetables

Grade: Early Childhood

Review:
The Monster Who Ate My Peas is a story about a boy who doesn't want to eat his peas, so a monster comes and makes him a deal to trade his soccer ball in return for eating his peas. This deal continues to keep happening until the monster asks for something the boy simply can't give up.... his puppy! The boy finally eats his peas and realizes that they really are not so bad. Very well done illustrations and rhymes so it is easy to read aloud.

Thank God this kid chose his dog over pea-avoidance. I was worried for a minute!

Wonderful, detailed, scary illustrations.

The monster is a little too scary for younger children, but the story is very fun and the kids can relate and guess what happens.

The boy makes a deal with a monster to eat his peas every night, in exchange the monster has many request. His request grow as the days go on. The boy soon chooses to eat a green pea and finds that he loves them.

A boy doesn't want to eat his peas. When a monster says that he will eat them in exchange for toys, the boy realizes that he can eat his peas.
Themes - monsters, vegetables, doing unpleasant things

About a young boy who does not want to eat his peas, so has a monster eat them. However, in return the boy has to give the monster something. *some young children may be afraid of illustrations*