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Picture Books
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Tedd Arnold.
Huggly
Takes a Bath
When he ventures
out from under the bed one night, Huggly tries to figure out
the use for various items in the bathroom.
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Bonnie Bader.
100
Monsters in My School
Jane Brain, the only
non-monster at Frank N. Stein Elementary School, is unhappy
because she is the only student who didn't find 100 items to
bring for show and tell on the 100th day of school.
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Ken Baker. Brave
Little Monster
A little monster
has trouble falling asleep one night because he fears little
boys and girls are hiding under his bed and in his closet.
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Kathryn Hook Berlan.
Andrew's
Amazing Monsters
The monster drawings
on Andrew's walls come to life and give him a party.
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Carol Carrick.
Norman Fools the Tooth Fairy
When Norman tries
to trick the tooth fairy by slipping her a fake tooth, he is
surprised by a visit from the tooth monster.
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Judy Cox. The
West Texas Chili Monster
Unexpected things
happen when Mama's rip-roarin', root-n-tootin', rip-snortin'
chili attracts a space monster to the West Texas chili contest.
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Rebecca Dickinson.
Monster
Cake
Three little monsters
make a most unusual cake and prepare other perfectly horrible
treats for their mother's birthday.
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Lynn Downey.
Most
Loved Monster
At bedtime, four
little monsters ask their mother which one she loves the most,
and one by one, she reminds them of why they are each special.
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Ed Emberley.
Go
Away, Big Green Monster
Die-cut pages through
which bits of a monster are revealed are designed to help a
child control nighttime fears of monsters.
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Dick Gackenbush.
Mag
the Magnificent
A boy's drawings
on the wall of a magical monster sets off a series of adventures
for the two of them, until his mother wants the wall cleaned
off.
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Adrienne Geoghegan.
There's a Wardrobe in My Monster
Bored with her ordinary
pets, a young girl chooses a monster from the pet store, but
soon finds that it is more trouble than she expected.
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Keith Graves.
Frank
was a Monster Who Wanted to Dance
Frank the monster
indulges his love of dancing by strutting his stuff on stage
until his head unzips, his brains flop out, and he continues
to lose body parts.
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James Howe. There's
a Monster Under My Bed
Simon is sure there
are monsters under his bed in the night--he can even hear them
breathing.
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Pat Hutchins.
The
Very Worst Monster
Hazel sets out to
prove that she, not her baby brother, is the worst monster anywhere.
Since the Baby Monster arrived, no one notices big sister Hazel's
talents. When Billy wins the Worst Monster Baby in the World
contest, that's the final straw--Hazel must prove that she is
the Worst Monster in the World.
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Jean Jackson.
Big Lips and Hairy Arms
While having dinner
together, two monsters get scared when they start receiving
mysterious telephone calls.
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Jackie French Koller.
No
Such Thing
Howard and the monster
under his bed decide on a plan to convince their mothers that
both of them have reason to be afraid after dark.
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Loreen Leedy.
The
Monster Money Book
The members of the
Monster Club discuss money and how to manage it.
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Laura Leuck.
My
Monster Mama Loves Me So
A young monster describes
all the things its mother does to show she loves it.
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Anne Miranda.
Monster
Math
A counting book in
which a little monster's birthday party gets out of control.
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Mitra Modarressi.
Monster
Stew
Presents three fairy
tales, based on themes from traditional tales and Hans Christian
Andersen, featuring a variety of monsters.
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Jill Murphy.
The
Last Noo-Noo
His grandmother thinks
he is too big to have a pacifier, his mother agrees, and the
other monster children make fun of him, but Marlon will not
give up his noo-noo until he is ready.
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Stuart J. Murphy.
Monster
Musical Chairs
As six monsters play
a wild game of musical chairs, readers learn to subtract--one
chair at a time.
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Matt Novak.
No Zombies Allowed
As they look at photographs
of their previous year's Monster Party, two witches begin to
exclude zombies, ghosts, and vampires to avoid problems, but
finally decide that a party is more fun when everyone is included.
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Laura Joffe Numeroff.
Monster
Munchies
Hungry monsters eat
everything in sight while introducing numbers one to twenty.
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Laura Joffe Numeroff.
Laura
Numeroff's 10 Step Guide to
Living
with Your Monster A guide to choosing
and caring for your own pet monster, which includes useful information
such as "monsters love country western music" and "monsters
love to buy gum."
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Susan Heyboer O'Keefe.
One Hungry Monster
At bedtime a small
boy tries to control ten insatiable monsters demanding food
and creating chaos throughout the house.
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Dav Pilkey. Dogzilla
A monstrous mutt
terrorizes the residents of Mousopolis.
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Tasha Pym.
It's a Monster Party
A monster's life
in Blogsville can be dull, but for Blot and Og things are about
to change. This is a tale about the universal magic of friendship.
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Bethany Roberts.
Monster Manners
An assortment of
monsters demonstrates good and bad manners.
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Phyllis Root.
The
Hungry Monster
A very hungry monster
finally finds something good to eat when he meets a girl with
a banana.
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Liz Rosenberg.
Monster
Mama
Patrick Edward's
fierce monster mother helps him deal with some obnoxious bullies.
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Marilyn Sadler.
Alistair Underwater
Exploring an underwater
cave in his homemade submarine, Alistair helps the frog people
get rid of the dreaded monster Gooze.
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Eileen Spinelli.
Wanda's
Monster
When Wanda fears
that she has a monster in her closet, she takes her grandmother's
advice and begins to look at things from the monster's point
of view.
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Adam Stower.
Two
Left Feet
Rufus, a monster
who has trouble dancing due to his two left feet, finds the
perfect partner for the dance competition.
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Frances Thomas.
What
If?
Mother Monster soothes
Little Monster with a pleasant story when he imagines a scary
day.
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Jean Van Leeuwen.
Amanda
Pig and the Awful, Scary Monster
Amanda the pig sees
monsters at night, but her parents and her brother find different
ways to convince her that there are no monsters.
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Jeanne Willis.
The
Monster Bed
A little monster
is afraid to go to bed because he thinks humans will get him
while he is asleep.
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Elizabeth Winthrop.
Maggie
and the Monster
Maggie wants to get
rid of the monster that visits her room every night and accepts
her mother's suggestion to simply ask the monster what it wants.
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Dan Yaccarino.
The
Lima Bean Monster
After Sammy's dumping
of the lima beans he does not want to eat starts a neighborhood
trend to put rejected vegetables in a hole in a vacant lot,
a terrible lima bean monster rises to terrorize the town.
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David A.
Adler. Cam
Jansen and the Mystery of the Monster
Movie
A fifth-grader uses her photographic memory, her mother, and
her friend Eric to find a missing reel of a monster film they
go to see.
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Vivien Alcock.
The Monster Garden
Using a tissue sample
she believes is from one of her father's experiments in genetic
engineering, Frankie accidentally creates a baby monster, which
begins to grow at an alarming rate.
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Jim Benton. Lunch
Walks Among Us
Franny K. Stein is
a mad scientist who prefers all things spooky and creepy, but
when she has trouble making friends at her new school she experiments
with fitting in--which works until a monster erupts from the
trashcan.
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Clyde Robert Bulla.
My
Friend the Monster
A lonely prince forms
a satisfying though dangerous friendship with a monster.
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Bruce Coville.
The
Monsters of Morley Manor
Anthony and his younger
sister discover that the monster figures he got in an unusual
box at an estate sale are alive, but they have no way of knowing
that the "monsters" will lead them on fantastical adventures
to other worlds in an effort to try to save Earth.
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Bruce Coville.
The
Monster's Ring
A timid boy, eager
to frighten the school bully on Halloween night, acquires a
magic ring and the power to change himself into a hideous monster.
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Debbie Dadey.
Mrs.
Jeepers' Monster Class Trip
Mrs. Jeepers takes
the third grade camping for the weekend to study rocks, and
they begin to wonder whether she could bring a canyon full of
rock monsters to life.
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Debbie Dadey.
Monsters
Don't Scuba Dive
There are some pretty
weird grown-ups living in Bailey City. But could the swimming
teacher at Camp Lone Wolf really be a sea monster? The Bailey
School kids are going to find out!
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Lawrence David.
The
Invasion of the Shag Carpet Monster
Flying, fire-breathing
superhero Horace Splattly has his hands full battling a mysterious
monster about to invade Blootinville, and at the same time,
trying to end an age-old family feud.
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John R. Erickson.
The
Case of the Night-Stalking Bone Monster
When his juicy T-bones
disappear before he has a chance to enjoy them, Hank the Cowdog
is convinced that a Bone Monster is loose on the ranch and determines
to put a stop to its devious activities.
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James Gelsey.
Scooby
Doo! And the Snow Monster
On a weekend ski
trip, Scooby-Doo and the gang find that rumors about a snow
monster on the ski slopes are keeping people away.
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Mary Labatt.
The
Secret of Sagawa Lake
At an island cabin
in the woods, Sam is determined to track down the monster in
the lake.
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Barbara Park.
Junie
B. Jones Has a Monster Under Her Bed
After hearing from
a classmate at kindergarten that people have monsters under
their beds, Junie B. Jones is afraid to go to sleep that night.
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Dian Curtis Regan.
Monster
of the Month Club
Thirteen-year-old
Rilla's life becomes chaotic when someone anonymously enrolls
her in the Monster of the Month Club and little living monsters
start to arrive in the mail.
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Seymour Simon.
The Invisible Man and Other Cases
The sixth grade science
sleuth solves ten more puzzling cases, one involving an allergic
monster, and another an invisible man.
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R. L. Stine.
How
to Kill a Monster
Gretchen and her
stepbrother, Clark, hate staying at their grandparents' house.
There's something odd about the upstairs room ... the one that's
locked.
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R. L. Stine.
The
Girl Who Cried Monster
Lucy has told so
many monster tales that when she discovers a real live monster,
the librarian in charge of the summer reading program, no one
believes a word she says.
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Gertrude Chandler Warner.
The
Mystery of the Lake Monster
While visiting Lake
Lucille in the Adirondack Mountains, the Aldens hear stories
about a monster in the lake and then encounter evidence that
it may be real.
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Tracey West.
Three
Strikes and You're a Monster!
When a boy buys a
baseball bat from Sebastian Cream's Junk Shop, he hopes to become
a good enough batter to make the school baseball team, but soon
strange things begin happening to him.
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Nonfiction
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Lee J.
Ames. Draw
50 Monsters
Step-by-step instructions
for drawing monsters and other assorted creatures. Includes
Darth Vader, Frankenstein, the Hunchback of Notre Dame, and
Jaws.
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Linda Ashman.
The
Essential Worldwide Monster Guide
Presents a collection
of poetry about monsters, beastly creatures, and strange, small
folk.
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Renzo Barto.
How
to Draw Monsters, Weirdos, & Aliens
Instructions for
drawing a variety of scary creatures, accompanied by black and
white line drawings.
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Marc Brown. Scared
Silly
An illustrated collection
of spooky stories, poems, and riddles including a humorous array
of ghosts, monsters, ghouls, and witches.
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Laura Buller.
Myths
and Monsters
Sea monsters, flying
monsters, classic monsters and more.
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Erni Cabat. Erni
Cabat's Magical World of Monsters
Depicts such legendary
monsters as the dragon, griffin, and chimera and discusses what
was known or believed about them.
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Daniel Cohen.
America's
Very Own Monsters
Discusses such creatures
as Bigfoot, the Demon Cat, and Mothman which, though never proven,
are said to exist in the United States.
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Daniel Cohen.
Everything You Need to Know About Monsters
and
Still Be Able to Get to Sleep A compendium
of information about such legendary monsters as vampires, werewolves,
zombies, and others that reputedly inhabit land and water.
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Martin Delrio.
The Loch Ness Monster
Examines the origins
of Loch Ness, stories about the monster first reported to dwell
there in 565 A.D., eyewitness reports and photographic evidence,
recent scientific investigations, and possible explanations.
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Sara Fanelli.
Mythological
Monsters of Ancient Greece
An introduction to
the stories of fourteen monsters from Greek mythology.
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Douglas Florian.
Monster
Motel: Poems and Paintings
A collection of poems
introducing the monstrous dwellers of the horribly horrid Monster
Motel.
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Brian Innes.
Water
Monsters
Describes sightings
of unidentified water creatures, including the Biblical Leviathan,
sea serpents, and the monsters supposedly inhabiting various
lakes.
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Sheila Keenan.
Gods,
Goddesses and Monsters
Discusses the characters
and themes of the myths of peoples from Asia to Africa to North
and South America.
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Charles Keller.
Count
Draculations: Monster Riddles
A collection of humorous
riddles about monsters.
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Tom Lichtenheld.
Everything
I Know About Monsters
A collection of made-up
facts, educated guesses, and silly pictures describing monsters.
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Terry O'Neill.
Mysterious
Monsters
Examines the evidence
and tries to draw a conclusion as to whether monsters really
do exist.
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Janet Perry.
Morph
Monsters
Discusses were-creatures,
monsters that change from one entity into another, such as werewolves
and cat people, including some scientific explanations for these
beasts.
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Janet Perry.
Giants
and Wild, Hairy Monsters
Examines the existence
of mythical and fictional monsters that are big and hairy, including
King Kong, the Abominable Snowman, and Sasquatch.
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Louis Phillips.
Monster Riddles
A collection of riddles
about monsters, vampires, ghosts, and other creatures.
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Tom Powers. Movie
Monsters
Describes the great
monsters of the movies and the films in which they appeared.
Includes King Kong, Godzilla, Frankenstein, the Thing, Wolf
Man, and the Gremlins.
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Jon Richards.
Monsters, Inc. the Essential Guide
An illustrated guide
to the characters in the animated film "Monsters, Inc ."
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Kathy Ross. Make
Yourself a Monster
Provides instructions
for twenty craft projects with a monster theme, created using
common household materials.
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Sam Schultz.
Monster
Mayhem
A collection of jokes
about monsters.
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Judy Sierra.
Monster Goose
A collection of twenty-five
nursery rhymes, rewritten to feature vampires, ghouls, mummies,
the Loch Ness monster , and other fearsome creatures.
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Marilyn Singer.
Monster Museum
This ghoulish collection
of monster poems makes an ideal Halloween book for young children,
as it showcases the werewolf, Count Dracula, the mummy, and
their slimy, slithery friends.
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Tony Tallarico.
I Can Draw Monsters
Provides step-by-step
instructions for drawing creatures from outer space, monsters,
and other weird beasts.
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Daisy Wallace.
Monster
Poems
Seventeen poems by
various authors describe different kinds of monsters.
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Marcia Williams.
Fabulous Monsters
Five stories, told
in cartoon form, about legendary monsters including Grendel,
Isikukumanderu, the basilisk, bunyip, and chimera.
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