Loved This Monster Needs a Haircut and absolutely Loved Loved Loooovvveeeddd This Monster Cannot wait. Loved the illustrations as it looks very bold and monsterish :) ( )

Summary: This book is about a monster that's excited to go camping. He decides to "destroy" the book so he can go camping faster. His parents get mad and make him fix the book, but then he gets to go camping!
Opinion: I liked this book ok. I like how it used illustrations to bring the monster character to life. It could totally be used to teach kids about patience. ( )

monster tries to hurry the book along ( )

Impatient monster attempts premature departure from story. ( )

In view of recent policy changes on Goodreads I'm beginning to feel not only guilty, but downright self conscious every time I come across a children's book I'm not crazy about. And now especially if written by a Goodreads author. But, here's the thing: If I had to "like" every single book we read, there would be no way for me to tell apart the books, and no point in using my collection to get new recommendantion. Anyway, this is not a bad book, and there's certainly stuff in it that will amuse many a kid. It's just that I really didn't care for the pictures and the illustration style. So much that I probably would not have read through the whole book, had I not been reading it together with my kid. He wasn't honestly all that much into the book either, but then again he's never been much of a monster fan, and incidentally he's so fanatically against camping trips too that it boggles my mind. BUT, I could see this book having great appeal for a slightly older child, say a six or seven year old reading it by himself, and then the pictures, although not to my personal taste, have a number of details / diagrams that may be fun to dwell on. And should you like it, there's another monster book to read as well: [b:This Monster Needs a Haircut|13269826|This Monster Needs a Haircut|Bethany Barton|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1348669223s/13269826.jpg|18473534]. ( )