No More Monsters for Me!

by Peggy Parish

Book Overview

It's no more monsters for Minneapolis Simpkin after she brings home a baby one that--hidden from Minn's mother in the basement--grows to gargantuan proportions. Three-color illustrations.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 006024657X
• ISBN13: 9780060246570
• Release Date: October 1981
• Publisher: HarperCollins Children's Books
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.
• Age Range: 5 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

Awesome Story - More Advanced than Most Level 1 Books

My older son LOVED this book when he was learning to read. Now, my youngest, 5, is reading it. It is a wonderful story that captures children's imaginations about monsters. It also depicts a good and realistic relationship between a mother and child. Although this book is a Level 1 reader, it is much more advanced than most level 1 readers, which contain rhyming words, words from the same word families, and/or repetition. Certain more difficult words (ie, hiccups, basement, bawling, monster, etc.) are repeated often on different pages throughout the book, though, so early readers learn to recognize these words. I would say that this is an advanced level 1 reader. It is a good book to read when your child is beyond the basic "formula" readers, but not quite at level 2.

The cool monster

Title: No More Monsters for MeAuthor: Peggy ParishFavorite Characters: Monster, Mom Minneapolis Simpkin wants a pet so bad that when she comes across a monster, she takes it home. Her mom said that she could not have any pets, but she didn?t mention monsters. The problem is hiding the monster when it cries so much and continues to grow every time it eats. Things get even worse when the monster gets hiccups and eats everything in the basement. Near the end, Minn tells her mom about the monster, but her mom doesn?t seem to believe her. Her mom does make a certain promise to Minn if she gets rid of the monster. Read the book to find out what her mom promises.bg

Fun book!

My daughter has a fascination for monsters, so I knew that she would adore this book. Now she has a book about a monster that I can read to her at bedtime without worry of bad dreams. It's a very cute story.

No more monsters for me

I cannot tell you how much my sons love this book! They love this green monster and all the silly things that he has done with Minn. My sons will ask me to read this story in the morning, in the afternoon, in the evening and for their bed-time story for a month and not feel tired of it!