Monsters under the bed or in the closet, everyone knows it from their childhood.
But not all monsters are scary.
Five beautiful monster books: book tip.
Children's and young people's books about or with monsters that can be sympathetic and not just scary.
For the age range of 3-12 years, sometimes more sometimes less monstrous.
Monsta: Four Color Picture Book
In Monsta by Dita Zipfel you read how frustrated a monster can be when the chosen child is not at all afraid.
Monsta is frustrated.
So it chose this one child to live under its bed and make really good scares.
And it did it skillfully: it filed teeth, built masks, put up its fur, squeaked with doors, flared its nostrils, cracked bones, snapped at legs...
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Monsta: Four-color picture book (from 4 years)
2022, Beltz & Gelberg, ISBN 13-978-3-407-76259-7
Price: paperback €6.50, number of pages: 40
Grumbling, crying, laughing - what little monsters do
What funny and not at all scary noises do monsters actually make?
This lovingly designed sound book has the answer.
What's going on here?
Wuseli is yawning with boredom, little bull hisses with anger and Zwicki is trembling with fear.
The three monsters let their emotions run wild and make the wildest noises...
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Grumbling, crying, laughing - what little monsters do (from 3 years)
2022, Arena Verlag, ISBN 13-978-3-401-71763-0
Price: cardboard volume 13 €, number of pages: 10
The Eternal Glass (Glass Trilogy Volume 3)
One of the most beautiful monster trilogies that has appeared in recent years.
If you would like to read the book review, you should take a look here.
Moritz travels through gloomy medieval Germany with his sister Konstanze and her friend Helene.
They are on the run from the witch Baba Jaga, who is demanding the soul of Helene's brother Edgar, who had withdrawn into a small magpie.
In order to save Edgar's soul, the three of them even take on the mighty witch's seven monster servants and get more and more caught up in their clutches...
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The eternal glass (from 12 years)
2021, Südpol Verlag, ISBN 13-978-3-965-94118-2
Price: hardback €17, e-book €14.99, number of pages: 368 (deviating from the format)
The Little Bad Book
Only if you solve the puzzles correctly and put all the pages back in the right order can you stop the evil.
A beautiful, interactive children's book.
The little bad book has a big dream: it wants to be a real bad book, just like the big ones.
It just needs the help of the reader - as a guinea pig - to get on the right ... eh bad way!
And then there's Finster, who wants to uncover and steal the secret of evil...
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The Little Evil Book (from 8 years)
2017, Ueberreuter Verlag, ISBN 13-978-3-764-15124-9
Price: hardback €14, e-book €9.99, number of pages: 128 (deviating from the format)
The Incredible Catalog of Monsters
A veritable encyclopedia of monsters, because if you're afraid of something, you should know everything about it.
Very suitable for little researchers.
Afraid of monsters?
- That is snow from yesterday.
Because anyone who has read the encyclopedia by Professor Edgar Gregorius Sankt Hilarius, lecturer in zoology and oddities, will never again be afraid of a monster.
Who knows that Glupschina is afraid of cute kittens and beautiful flowers...
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The Incredible Catalog of Monsters (6+)
2022, Tulipan Verlag, ISBN 13-978-3-864-29560-7
Price: bound book €25, number of pages: 64
