When I was your age, I was afraid to look under my bed at
night because that’s where the monsters live. Don’t laugh. I know you feel the
same, but you don’t have to admit it. Ethan actually knows the monster under
his bed. Yeah: they’re buddies. Isn’t that weird?
Ethan is a lot braver than I am, but he’s got a problem: his
monster is going out of town for a week. Don’t ask me why, but Ethan has to
have a monster under his bed. He will NOT be without one, so he starts interviewing
monsters to see which one is suitable to stay under his bed at night! I know: I
don’t get it, either.
How hard can it be to find the right monster? Okay, one was
wearing a bow, one had an absurdly long tongue, and one was green but not
scary. Agghhhhh!!!! How many monsters does a boy have to interview before he
finds one appropriately terrifying to stay under his bed?
I Need My Monster by Amanda Noll,
illustrated by Howard McWilliam. Unpaged. Booktalk to K-2. Virginia Readers’
Choice, 2012-2013.
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