Love Monster and the Scary Something
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- €5.99
Publisher Description
A funny and reassuring story featuring Love Monster, who now appears in his own animated television show on CBeebies!
It’s way past bedtime o’clock in Cutesville and Love Monster is the only one who’s wide awake… Or is he?
As the sounds of the night make his imagination run wild… will he be brave enough to stare his fears straight in the googly eye?
A heart-poppingly empowering, edge-of the-bed story, about how, sometimes, it’s only when we face our fears, that we find out there was nothing to be scared of, after all.
Reviews
Praise for Love Monster:
“A delightful story with an aah ending.” – The Sun
“A sweetly inspiring story aimed at encouraging little readers to take positive action when life is not going their way." – The Observer
“Love Monster is a delightful book which has gorgeous pictures, clear text, and a witty story line” – We Love This Book
About the author
Rachel is a writer of words, drawer of pictures and thinker of happy thoughts. With a cacophony of quirky characters tumbling tirelessly from her imagination, she is one of the South West’s most prolific talents. Creating a growing portfolio of beautifully imagined children’s stories, an award-winning card and gift empire and a smorgasbord of delicate etchings, silk-screens and hand-printed poems, Rachel brings her own unique sunshine to the very young and the slightly older alike.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Fears of lurking monsters can be a source of nighttime anxiety for some kids, so it's slightly ironic that Bright's adorably big-eyed monster, returning in his fourth picture book, is himself being kept awake by strange noises. Bright generates some real suspense during Love Monster's dark night of the soul ("There was definitely something out there! And that something... had definitely gotten in!"), and as her hero's imagination goes into overdrive, readers see a menacing purple fluffball with "terrible, twisterly toenails" tromping up the stairs. Reality proves to be much cuddlier: the intruder, "the tiniest, fluffiest bunny in Cutesville," was simply scared of the dark, too. The storytelling can occasionally get a bit convoluted ("Somehow, hiding from the something outside... got harder than finding something brave inside"), but nervous readers will be reassured by the nothing-to-worry-about conclusion. Ages 2 4.
