Monsters Everywhere
There Are Monsters Everywhere, believes the young protagonist of this delightful Easy Picture Book from Mercer Mayer. And I am inclined to agree. While the boy in Mayer’s book believes that monsters are under the bed, in the bathroom and out by the trash cans, I myself have been more than a bit dis-concerted by such meanies as the Earthsuck monster (which seems to have sucked away all of our DSL connectivity for the past two days, to the point I have come to the library with my laptop just to be able to get online or the Heat Wave monster who made things right steamy around here (until a Thunderstorm monster rolled in and cleared him away). Mayer’s young hero sees a sign at school and signs up for karate classes and makes short work of his monsters with amazing kicks, punches and postures. I on the other hand am not so sure what to do about my remaining monsters. But cancelling Earthlink when our contract comes up in October is beginning to seem like a Good Idea. There Are Monsters Everywhere. Recommended.
Hello, Alan,
I really like Mercer Mayer. His books are wonderful. The little critter series is great. The titles are simple and straightforword. Just Daddy and Me, Just Mommy and Me, and Just Grandpa and me are great. His artwork reminds me a bit of Where The Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak. Maurice Sendak claims to have based Where the Wild Things Are on pictures of his relatives.
Anyways, I got tagged with a meme from Elvislover to write six quirky things about you. Here is a link. I am including your blog on the list of blogs which I contacted.
http://bookcalendar.blogspot.com/2008/08/elvis-lover-has-tagged-me-with-meme.html