BUYING ADVISORY: EL (K-3) - OPTIONAL
AUDIENCE APPEAL: LOW
Children do a lot of things, like get their hair cut wear shoes and go swimming. Monsters do none of these things.
My initial response to Monsters Never Get Haircuts was, "wow, I bet this was translated". It just kinda doesn't work. It was originally published in France. Sometimes these titles published outside the US seem odd to an American audience. The text might make fun drawing prompts for an art class even though some of the actual illustrations were a stretch (translation issue or illustrator disconnect?). Not giving it a "no" but barely not.
Lisa Librarian
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