That's Not the Monster We Ordered
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Publisher Description
The day the Turner family gets their very own monster is a momentous event in the neighborhood. Everyone gathers for the occasion. The monster can roar louder than a lion, leap down the stairs better than any Slinky, and eat grass so no one needs to mow. Based on the Turners’ experience, investing in a monster seems like a great idea!
Except, the monster that shows up isn’t the monster they ordered at all. Their monster likes to pull pranks and paint murals, and when he eats grass, he gets gas! He isn’t a good baker and he smells! Will the family return their defective monster? Or will the monster find a way to win their love?
That’s Not the Monster We Ordered is a fun twist on household pets but full of enough silly antics to warrant rereads. As in Gorillas in Our Midst and My Grandpa Is a Dinosaur, Fairgray and Jones have blended imagination into the real world, creating an entertaining story everyone will enjoy.
Sky Pony Press, with our Good Books, Racehorse and Arcade imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of books for young readers—picture books for small children, chapter books, books for middle grade readers, and novels for young adults. Our list includes bestsellers for children who love to play Minecraft; stories told with LEGO bricks; books that teach lessons about tolerance, patience, and the environment, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
It's a case of keeping up with the Joneses (or, in this case, the Turners) as an interracial family sends away for a pet monster. But while the Turner family's cape-wearing, green-furred monster is a delight performing daring skateboard moves, carrying the neighborhood children around like a piggyback bus, and serving as an impromptu soccer coach the monster that lands on the narrator's doorstep isn't nearly as exciting. This dumpy blue monster is of the hapless, flatulent, nose-picking variety. Fairgray and Jones, the duo behind Gorillas in Our Midst and My Grandpa Is a Dinosaur, are joined by comics creator Black for a sweetly goofy story about dashed expectations that predictably give way to contentment. The large trim size leaves plenty of room for the artistic team to show off the monsters' feats and failures in crisp, comical illustrations, and the first-person narration, delivered by one of the family's three children, will sound familiar to anyone whose new pet doesn't quite live up to the hype: "The Turners' monster did all sorts of tricks. Our monster just tapped Dad on the shoulder and giggled a lot." Ages 3 6.
