Sunday, September 28, 2014

Monsters Love School by Mike Austin -- ADVISABLE

Austin, Mike Monsters Love School. PICTURE BOOK. Harper, 2014. $15.99. Content: G.

Summer is over, and it's time to go to school. All the monsters are excited except Blue, who has a lot of questions and worries about this new adventure. But as he goes through his first day, he learns that school is about more than ABC and 123. It's also about having fun and meeting new friends.

While the plot is nothing that hasn't been addressed in pretty much every other first-day-of-school book, Austin's illustrations are eye-catching and entertaining, and the book does have a fun, optimistic feel to it. All in all a nice addition to a first-day-of-school collection.

Pre-K, EL (K-3) -- ADVISABLE. Reviewer: Caryn


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