The Essential Worldwide Monster Guide

By Linda Ashman

Book Overview

Dear Traveler: Say you're sailing in the south, Or hiking in the east. Your holiday's delightful -- Till you meet a pesky beast. What now? Should you ignore it? Offer presents? Run and hide? Don't... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0689826400
• ISBN13: 9780689826405
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books
• Length: 40 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.3" x 0.4" x 9.8"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Kindergarten to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

Fun

This fun little book is meant for young readers. Each of the thirteen "monsters" is given two (facing) brightly illustrated pages, with some cute text arranged in rhyming form. Really, the book shows two children and their dog, as they travel around the world meeting a fantastic creature from every continent. This is a really fun book to share with the young reader in your life. Or, as in my case, it's a fun book to share with your too-young to read child - I have found that rhyming makes books lots of fun for little ones. Anyway, we highly recommend this book to you!

For kids who really like monsters

This book is a rhyming field guide to monsters from around the world. Each monster gets a two-page spread with a humorous rhyming description and a small box with some additional concise information. The book also includes a global map showing the home locations of each of the monsters The book is suitable for kids aged 4-9, depending on how brave they are. Some of the pictures, while comical, aren?t exactly accurate, like the one showing a moose harnessed to a sled in Eskimo lands. After all, reindeer, not moose, are harnessed to sleds, and only in Scandinavia, not in Greenland. But overall, the book provides an interesting cultural adventure for monster maniacs. It contains about 1200 words.