Leo T. reviewed Everything I Know About Monsters : A Collection of Made-up Facts, Educated Guesses, and Silly Pictures about Creatures of Creepiness on + 1775 more book reviews
This is a reassuring book: "Even though monsters are usually bigger than you, their brains are always smaller than yours. And, as you can see in this scientific diagram, monster brains are filled with useless junk, while your brain is packed with important, brainiac stuff. So you can always outsmart a monster."
Lighthearted advice, illustrated with unsophisticated drawings, and this thin book is not burdened with boring features such as a foreword, index, and glossary.
Readers learn 'How much light' is needed for a monster to disappear.
If one reads all the side notes, the vocabulary is quite advanced....
This is on the branch library sale shelf for two bits and as there is one wish outstanding, I will buy it and enjoy it on the bus. It is unusual (as compared to many of their very good YA novels and nonfiction science books for upper elementary grades) that it has seen considerable wear, i.e. many readers, and actually been here for fourteen years, rather than being discarded after two or three years.
So I enjoyed reading it but found that one page has a tear. Will the one person wishing for the book believe that it was done by a monster when I tell them?
Yes, Ms. Stehr of Tucson did buy that! Her considerations were probably that whoever the book is for would age out of it s/he had to wait forever for a copy and that there are no longer that many copies remaining in libraries. I did include for free a VG copy of George Saunders Civilwarland in Bad Decline (41 wishers) so she could redeem her credit.
Lighthearted advice, illustrated with unsophisticated drawings, and this thin book is not burdened with boring features such as a foreword, index, and glossary.
Readers learn 'How much light' is needed for a monster to disappear.
If one reads all the side notes, the vocabulary is quite advanced....
This is on the branch library sale shelf for two bits and as there is one wish outstanding, I will buy it and enjoy it on the bus. It is unusual (as compared to many of their very good YA novels and nonfiction science books for upper elementary grades) that it has seen considerable wear, i.e. many readers, and actually been here for fourteen years, rather than being discarded after two or three years.
So I enjoyed reading it but found that one page has a tear. Will the one person wishing for the book believe that it was done by a monster when I tell them?
Yes, Ms. Stehr of Tucson did buy that! Her considerations were probably that whoever the book is for would age out of it s/he had to wait forever for a copy and that there are no longer that many copies remaining in libraries. I did include for free a VG copy of George Saunders Civilwarland in Bad Decline (41 wishers) so she could redeem her credit.
