I Do Not Eat Children

The orange monster on the cover makes the titular statement, but page after page, children keep disappearing, and the reader thinks the monster doth protest too much. When only one child is left - a brown-skinned girl with black hair in two puffs, holding a book - she faces the monster and states grimly, "I do eat liars." On the final page, the girl goes back to her book, and the monster is gone.

The front endpapers are patterned with green and yellow stripes to match the monster's pants; the back endpapers are patterned aqua with white polka dots to match the girl's shirt.

A delightfully dark counting book.

See also: A Hungry Lion, or, a Dwindling Assortment of Animals by Lucy Ruth Cummins