When monster Hazel is getting a new baby brother, her father says that he will be the very worst monster and Hazel is persistent on making sure that she is the worst monster of them all.
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This book is a great way to show how you family wants you to grow up. Verus how you grow up just being yourself.
ages 3-5
DuPont library ( )

I really enjoyed this book. I especially liked the illustrations in the book of the monsters. All the monsters were depicted with expression that really described the story. For example, Hazel the sister monster, always had a look of jealously and disgust for her baby brother in the illustrations. I also liked this story because it was told through Hazel's point of view and how she felt losing attention from her family to her new baby brother. The story does a good job describing her feelings through her perspective. I think the main idea of the story is to explain to kids that having a new baby brother or sister can be hard to share the attention but your parents still love you just the same. ( )

I liked this book for two reasons. First, I liked the characters. They were believable and actually pretty relatable because I remember feeling like Hazel when my little brother was born. I didn't like that he got all of the attention all of the time, just like Hazel. She tried to get rid of her brother so that wouldn't be an issue anymore and although I never actually tried to get rid of my brother, I would tell him I was going to all of the time. The characters were just humorous to me.

Second, I liked this book for the illustrations. The pictures of all of the funny looking monsters were cute and I feel as though kids would find them funny to look at. It could even lead to a good activity of students creating/drawing their own monsters for some type of activity in the classroom.

Overall, I think the idea of this book is just for readers to read something fun. ( )

In my opinion this is a cute children’s book. The message of the story was to pay attention and value family. I liked this book for younger grades because of the firm sense of repetition. Besides the beginning and ending, the book repeatedly had the baby monster doing something bad, the little sister doing it too, but nobody paid her any mind. That being said, this would be a great book to use with a first grader who was learning repetition. The illustrations enhanced the story, which is also useful for teaching an ELL student. Even if a child could not understand the written dialogue, the pictures aligned so well with the text that a child could understand the story and message. This book can appeal to a variety of children and be used for teaching very basic principles of a picture book. ( )