The Monster Who Ate My Peas by Danny Schnitzlein

Schnitzlein, Danny The Monster Who Ate My Peas illustrated by Matt Faulkner 32 pgs. Peachtree Publishers, 2001. Reprint. PICTURE BOOK. $16.95. This is not your average monster story! The little boy in this story will desperately do anything in order to avoid eating his peas, including giving up some of his most prized possessions! (Sound familiar to any of you parents out there?!) Well when his wish comes true and the disgusting pea monster appears, all it will take for the peas to disappear from his plate is the boy's new soccer ball. Easy enough it seems. But the next time the monster appears he wants the boys bike....and then his dog. How far is the boy willing to go to avoid eating his peas?? The boy has had enough and decides that this must stop....so he does the most brave thing of all...he eats his peas....and makes a surprising discovery! 
This is a clever book about facing the things we dread eating the most. Parents will get a kick out of this as it may describe their kids exactly! The illustrations are disgustingly detailed and the rhythmic rhyming of the text creates the perfect flow to the story. EL-ADVISABLE. Whitney, Library-Teacher.