Mathew's Reviews > We're Going to Find the Monster
We're Going to Find the Monster
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bookshelves: adventure, challenging-gender-stereotypes, childrens-literature, dads-as-good-role-models, diversity, family, foundation-stage, humour, imagination, imaginative-play, intertextuality, key-stage-1, key-stage-2, picturebook, quest, storytelling
Nov 21, 2021
bookshelves: adventure, challenging-gender-stereotypes, childrens-literature, dads-as-good-role-models, diversity, family, foundation-stage, humour, imagination, imaginative-play, intertextuality, key-stage-1, key-stage-2, picturebook, quest, storytelling
In what sees a glorious partnership between Blackman and Adeola, this picturebook sees Charlie and Eddie playing in the garden until their father calls them in with a particular quest: go wake the monster upstairs. Fired up with an imagination that would make Shirley (Come Away From The Water, Shirley) proud, the real environment becomes enveloped in an imaginary one as they climb mountains and traverse oceans until they finally arrive at the monster's lair: there's nothing worse than being sent to wake up a teenager!
So much playfulness here with strong riffs on the Bear Hunt book but none of that detracts from the delightful prose and Dapo's characterisation. Extremely refreshing to meet a character with vitiligo too - which is never mentioned in the story but a few sentences draw attention to the condition on the endpaper.
So much playfulness here with strong riffs on the Bear Hunt book but none of that detracts from the delightful prose and Dapo's characterisation. Extremely refreshing to meet a character with vitiligo too - which is never mentioned in the story but a few sentences draw attention to the condition on the endpaper.
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challenging-gender-stereotypes
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childrens-literature
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dads-as-good-role-models
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diversity
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family
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foundation-stage
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humour
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imagination
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imaginative-play
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intertextuality
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key-stage-1
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key-stage-2
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picturebook
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quest
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storytelling
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