Books like My Teacher Is a Monster!
By Peter Brown
For the kid who's sure their teacher turns scary the second the classroom door closes, this one gently proves otherwise. Funny, a little sly, warm underneath the monster jokes
On a goat farm, a girl named Carla and her father Hector face a mystery when a goat turns up flat as a pancake — the legendary work of El Chupacabras, the fearsome goatsucker.
A boy named Duncan opens his crayon box to find a stack of complaint letters — Blue is exhausted, Black feels misused, and Orange and Yellow are fighting over who's really the color of the sun.
Three dust bunnies named Ed, Ned, and Ted love rhyming games — bug, rug, mug, hug — but a fourth named Bob keeps breaking the pattern, trying to warn them about a broom-wielding danger heading their way.
A little creature has eaten his only friend and now needs a new one, so he goes around asking other creatures — each with a very good reason to say no.
A kid dreams up the ultimate shortcut to awesome: a magical Robo-Sauce that turns squishy little humans into giant, laser-eyed, rocket-footed robots — no beans, baths, or bedtime required.
A boy named Nicholas wakes up to find a witch has cast a body-swap spell on him overnight, trapping him inside his cat Leonardo while Leonardo goes off to school in his place.
On an island crawling with the ugliest, meanest creatures imaginable, everything is perfect and vicious — until a single beautiful flower sprouts, and its unbearable prettiness threatens to ruin paradise.
A little girl wakes up one Thursday with a full set of antlers growing out of her head, and while the doctor and school principal panic, the cook and kitchen maid find surprising uses for them.
A girl named Cordelia hosts a proper tea party with her brother, but their guest of honor is a T-Rex whose manners turn out to be more Cretaceous than gracious.
Nineteen comic poems peek into the everyday headaches of famous monsters — Frankenstein hunts for lunch fixings, Wolfman needs housekeeping tips, and Dracula could really use a toothbrush.
A furry blue monster begs the reader directly, page after page, not to keep turning — because there's a monster waiting at the very end of the book.
A horribly hideous ogre leaves his swampy home to seek adventure, crossing paths with a witch, a knight, and a dragon on his quest to find an equally ugly princess to marry.
