* Flashlight Press is celebrating their 20th anniversary in 2024. Bookstores should carry this book because it is a companion book to the strong seller, I Need My Monster (which sold over 180,000 copies). The dramatic cover image of a boy and younger girl peering upside-down, under a bed, clearly portrays Hey, That's MY Monster! as a companion to the original I Need My Monster, pulling readers into this new night-time scenario with the same spooky-fun atmosphere and more outrageous monsters. Setting the two books side by side, cover-out, will be a real attention grabber. Picture book, My Monster series, fantasy, Story elements: setting: bedroom at bedtime, plot and character development, Point of view: Young boy, Ethan, and Gabe the Monster, humorous tone, illustrations enhance meaning and tone, Comprehension strategies: identify cause and effect relationships, changes from beginning to end of the story, problem and solution, make predictions and text to text connections, Themes: monster under my bed story, monsters, bedtime.
Hey, That's MY Monster!