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Overview

Meet an adorable monster looking for love in this board book version of Rachel Bright’s bestselling Love Monster—a must-have for the little ones in your life.

Love Monster wants to belong with the cuddly residents of Cutesville. But as it turns out, it's hard to fit in with the cute and the fluffy when you're a googly-eyed monster. And so, Love Monster sets out to find someone who will love him just the way he is. His journey is not easy—he looks high, low, and even middle-ish. But as he soon finds out, love can find you when you least expect it.

With sweet illustrations and a heartwarming message about how everyone deserves love, this is the perfect gift for Valentine’s Day, baby showers, and celebrating love year-round.

Join Love Monster on more adventures in:
● Love Monster and the Last Chocolate
● Love Monster and the Perfect Present
● Love Monster and the Scary Something

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ISBN-13:	9780374301866
Publisher:	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date:	12/23/2014
Series:	Love Monster
Pages:	32
Sales rank:	29,827
Product dimensions:	6.40(w) x 6.50(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range:	2 - 4 Years

About the Author

Rachel Bright is a wordsmith, printmaker, and thinker of happy thoughts. She is passionate about time-honored printmaking techniques, and is the author-illustrator of In A Minute Mama Bear, Love Monster, Love Monster and the Perfect Present, Love Monster and the Last Chocolate, and Love Monster and the Scary Something, as well as many other celebrated books, which have been translated into thirty-eight languages. She works from her studio on a farm near the sea in England, where she lives with her partner; her daughters, River and Sky; and Elvis, the nicest dog in the world.

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#1 PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BESTSELLER
A USA TODAY BESTSELLER

"'You might have noticed that everyone loves kittens, and puppies and bunnies. You know, cute, fluffy things,' remarks the chatty narrator of 'Love Monster', a winning picture book by Rachel Bright. The world's affection for cuteness makes it tough for the funny-looking, "slightly hairy" title character who yearns for love and acceptance. Ms. Bright uses a style of printmaking that yields coarse black lines, which she has filled in with color to evoke the Love Monster's feelings of both despondency and hope as he searches the (frustratingly cute) world for a kindred spirit. With the Monster, as with many a lonely soul, love arrives when he least expects it in this ultimately happy excursion for 2- to 5-year-olds.” —The Wall Street Journal

“Bright has a brisk but sympathetic voice . . . and her visual pacing is impeccable. Like the monster itself, this story wears its heart very visibly.” —Publishers Weekly

“Scarily good!” —Kirkus Reviews

“Like the main characters in Mo Willems' Leonardo, the Terrible Monster (2005) and Tammi Sauer's Mostly Monsterly (2010), Monster's appearance doesn't match his sensitive disposition, and he yearns for someone to love him 'just the way he is.' Bright's rough-textured print technique—think degraded photocopy—suits our scruffy little hero to a T, while the bright, saturated color palette of reds and purples against pale and pretty backgrounds reflects his optimistic nature.” —Booklist

“Sweet.” —School Library Journal

From the Publisher

10/14/2013
“In a world of cute, fluffy things” it’s “pretty darn hard” to be a monster. Bright’s hero is determined to find a soul mate, but keeps running into dead ends—a monster costume in a shop window, his own reflection in a pond. Just when he’s ready to give up, he notices that the bus driver is just his type. First published in the U.K., Bright’s underdog story is overly familiar, and her pink, googly-eyed main character is—contrary to the narration—almost undeniably cute, throwing his outcast status out the window. Still, Bright has a brisk but sympathetic voice that’s appealingly British, and her visual pacing is impeccable. Like the monster itself, this story wears its heart very visibly. Ages 2–4. (Dec.)

Publishers Weekly

11/01/2013
PreS-Gr 1—Monster is funny-looking, slightly hairy, and googly-eyed. It doesn't help that he lives in a world of fluffy bunnies and cuddly kittens that the human children favor. Distraught, he decides to find someone to love him. After several dead ends, love finally finds him, and the two monsters walk off into the sunset holding hands. The story is sweet but somewhat bland. It is supported by a jaunty typeface and bright, cartoonlike illustrations with thick black lines.—Jennifer Miskec, Longwood University, Farmville, VA

School Library Journal

2013-10-01
Monster lives in Cutesville, where he feels his googly eyes make him unlovable, especially compared to all the "cute, fluffy" kittens, puppies and bunnies. He goes off to find someone who will appreciate him just the way he is…with funny and heartwarming results. A red, scraggly, pointy-eared, arm-dragging monster with a pronounced underbite clutches his monster doll to one side of his chest, exposing a purplish blue heart on the other. His oversized eyes express his loneliness. Bright could not have created a more sympathetic and adorable character. But she further impresses with the telling of this poor chap's journey. Since Monster is not the "moping-around sort," he strikes out on his own to find someone who will love him. "He look[s] high" from on top of a hill, and "he look[s] low" at the bottom of the same hill. The page turn reveals a rolling (and labeled) tumbleweed on a flat stretch. Here "he look[s] middle-ish." Careful pacing combines with dramatic design and the deadpan text to make this sad search a very funny one. When it gets dark and scary, he decides to head back home. A bus's headlights shine on his bent figure. All seems hopeless--until the next page surprises, with a smiling, orange monster with long eyelashes and a pink heart on her chest depicted at the wheel. And "in the blink of a googly eye / everything change[s]." This seemingly simple tale packs a satisfying emotional punch. Scarily good! (Picture book. 4-7)

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