Book description
Welcome to Monsterville, where the residents are anything but ordinary. The monsters here are "friendly! thoughtful! shy and scary," much like their human neighbors. Readers will meet a monster house who plays hopscotch and makes the sidewalks quake, laugh at a bubblegum-headed monster's epic tantrum, and cry with a monster…
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1 author picked Welcome to Monsterville as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Visit Monsterville to discover fun poems for middle-grade readers paired with wondrous illustrations of the monsters that live there.
From a monster house that dances to a hunger monster that eats Dad’s apple crumble, this book feels like an invitation to frolic and feel a range of emotions from gratitude to sadness. I dream in monsters. Do you?
From Karen's list on middle-grade about monsters and facing our fears.
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