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FIVE UGLY MONSTERS

Here's a picture of me reading FIVE UGLY MONSTERS to a room full of children. My boys thought I didn't look monstrous enough. Click on the picture to see what they did to me on their computer.

This book is special because it was inspired by a class of kids. I was visiting their school but before I came, they all drew pictures of bed-jumping because they liked my book, NO JUMPING ON THE BED. But because they made their drawings just before Halloween, instead of drawing kids jumping on beds, these third graders drew Halloween monsters jumping on beds. Then they mailed their artwork to me. When I opened the mail and looked at all their drawings, the first thing that popped into my mind was to say, "Hey, no more monsters jumping on the bed!" Then I thought that sounded familiar--kinda like an old rhyme about 5 little monkeys. I decided that, while monkeys are cute, monsters are cool! So I was inspired by the kids' drawings to make a monster book. You can see the names of all those children on the dedication page of the book.

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