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Monsters Don't Eat Broccoli (2009)

by Barbara Jean Hicks(Favorite Author)

3.64 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0375856862 (ISBN13: 9780375856860)

languge

English

genre

Food & Cookbooks

publisher

Knopf Books for Young Readers

review 1: Fun, and the monster illustrations were a hit, but this one just doesn't seem to have staying power for my toddler or for me. And I find it's overall message (that the kids/monsters are eating broccoli all along) to be a bit didactic and condescending. We read it a few times and enjoyed the pictures of monsters eating cars and space ships, wheels, and trees, but we weren't sad to take this one back to the library.
review 2: I know I've read this before today, but I don't remember when. It has great potential for a read-aloud. Yet the ending will require some thinking on my part. 11/9/10 Went well. Preschool liked it. The special needs group got very into the chanting with me, which was fun.11/16/10 & 11/18/10 The larger Tue. group had more fun with this as they... more responded to what the monsters liked to eat. (Though I wonder if a couple of those kids were just past preschool age.) The Thu. group enjoyed it, too.2/15/12 This didn't work for me as well as it has previously. The first and larger group was very late and noisy when coming in. It distracted kids, parents, and, me--I completely forgot about the chanting. And for such a large group, they're still not as responsive as I'd like. I may have to rethink how to draw them out. They did like the end in both groups. And at least the second & smaller group moved heads when asked if they'd eat what the monsters did. less

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