6 Funny Monster Books For Preschoolers

First published Sept 2011. Updated 2019.

 

Reading regularly with your child is critical to their development in many ways. There is no better way to increase vocabulary, teach literacy fundamentals, and expose your child to images and words to which they would otherwise not be exposed. While monsters can be a scary topic for young children, these monster books below change all that! Who thought monsters could be so silly?

Monster Books For Preschoolers

Here are some of our favorite not-so-scary monster books for kids…

Hungry Monsters

What do hungry monsters eat? It depends on where they are, for monsters under the bed eat things like red underwear, those in the bathroom enjoy bath soap and yellow duckies, and attic monsters just love old books and umbrellas.

This is a super-fun pop up monster book that teaches your child all about colors! Written with a simple story line and bright colors, this book is sure to be a favorite!

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One Hungry Monster:  A Counting Book in Rhyme

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This children’s book about monsters is one of our new favorite books. Not only is it a perfect way to introduce numbers and one-to-one correspondence, but the story line is lots of fun!

Ten monsters invade the home of this little boy, causing all sorts of ruckus and making a huge mess. The little boy finally gets fed up after they’ve eaten all the food in his house and shoos them out! And don’t worry, the monsters in this book are way more silly than they are scary!

 

 The Monster Show monster books for kids

Monsters are certainly misunderstood. Even though everyone knows monsters are scary, there are some not-so-scary things about monsters too! This monster book for preschoolers sets out to show the lesser-known “facts” about monsters.

Big Brother’s favorite part of the book was, “Even monsters look silly when they are just wearing underpants.” And did you know that some monsters like to eat toothpaste? ;)  This was another book that has been asked to be read over and over and over again. It will be well-loved by the time we take it back to the library!

 

Go Away, Big Green Monster!

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This is probably one of the most popular monster books. This story is so simple and TONS of fun. The way the book itself is constructed will pique your child’s interest. More on this book to come in a later post…

 

Five Little Monsters Went to School

 This monster book looks like lots of fun. I haven’t read this one (yet), but Deborah from Teach Preschool did an excellent review of it with suggestions for fun activities you can do along with it.

 

Where the Wild Things Are 

Where The Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak is one of our most beloved children’s books. I love how it highlights the imagination of a young boy and makes his fantasy journey come to life!

Check out >>> Where The Wild Things Are Activities

 

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16 Comments

  1. Those look like great books! We really enjoyed “Go Away, Big Green Monster” too! My favorite monster book is “The Monster at the End of This Book” starring Grover. We all loved it growing up and now I get to read it to my kids.

  2. I am loving all these “monster” ideas– I’m planning a (friendly of course) monster storytime for the week of Halloween for my preschool group.

    Kids have loved “The Monster at the End of This Book: Starring Loveable, Furry Old Grover” by Jon Stone and is particularly fun as a read-aloud.

  3. there was an old monster is also cute. It follows there waan old lady who swallowed a fly sing-song style, and you can download the story read/sung on scholastics website. my kids think its so cool to hear it sung on my phone at story time :)

  4. One of my favorite monster books is “I Need My Monster” by Amanda Noll. The monster living under a little boy’s bed goes on vacation, so the boy interviews a bunch of substitutes. In the end, none of them will do, and he realizes that he needs his monster back. It’s lots of fun as long as your child is old enough to see the humor and not be scared of something under his/her bed.

    http://www.amazon.com/Need-My-Monster-Amanda-Noll/dp/0979974623/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1315864058&sr=8-1

  5. My son’s favorite monster books are : A Monster At The End Of This Book,Another Monster At The End Of This Book, and There Was An Old Monster. Every time he reads them he is always laughing cuz the books are so funny.

  6. I was looking at the 3-5 year part and could not open “what you need to know about 3 year olds” in the gross,fine,language etc.

  7. The Ravenous Beast by Niamh Sharkey
    Frank was a Monster who wanted to Dance by Keith Graves
    Of course There was an Old Monster, but once you read it with the song there’s no reading it any other way.
    I Need my Monster by Amanda Noll. Pre read this book, it’s NOT for every child. It’s a fun story, but creepy pictures.

  8. Nobody has mentioned my all-time favorite monster book! I love “There’s a Monster in my Closet” by Mercer Mayer. The illustrations are darling and the monsters are so funny and loveable. My kids adore it too.

  9. The Monster at the end of This Book (you know, the book with Grover), is my favorite monster book. But I do really like Go Away Big Green Monster also.

    The one of the monsters going to school looks very cute. :)

  10. My preschooler’s love “There’s a Nightmare in my Closet” by Mercer Mayer, “The Hungry Thing” by Jan & Ann Slepian, and “Nighty Night Little Green Monster” by Ed Embereley. There are also the monster books by Mike Austin!

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