monsters — Book Reviews For Mums

A timely book for Halloween the fabulous author of The Fearsome Beastie has written another crazy kids story book. Giles Paley-Phillips is brilliant at scary funny and cute. Makes you wonder what he's like in real life doesn't it! Maverick books are always a little bit edgy and they really seem to know what real kids like to read. The rhyming couplets flow easily and this is a great book to aloud, It starts off all spooky and scary with shadowy monsters and hairy arms grabbing little … [Read more...]

Bedtime for Monsters by Ed Vere

Puffin books This book is very, very funny. The words build you up to think a monster is coming to get you - step by step. But the pictures are so funny and the monster so silly looking no child is 'really scared' at all. The pictures are very cute and so well done they make you actually quite like the monster! But still, there is a build up, and when the monster finally ends his journey to your bedroom it is a relief when what he really wants to do isn't to eat you but to ... no, I won't … [Read more...]