Books about monsters

Brilliantly funny and full of silly catchphrases that kids will be repeating for days after listening, Monster! Hungry! Phone! is a straightforward, funny book with a simple idea at its core – trying to get something and failing – and a chaotic but loveable monster.

This interactive book comes complete with a Boris puppet making it perfect for sharing.

The rhyming text bowls the story along, accompanied by illustrations veering between dark chaos and demure pastels to express visually Little Monster’s inner contradictions. Great fun for small monsters wishing they were bigger!

Guard your treats: the Chunk is on the loose and he’s coming after your chocolate stash! This hilarious and chaotic picture book will delight anyone who loves biscuits, truffles, cakes, pudding… well, just about anything to do with chocolate, really.

A lovely slightly fairy tale-inspired tale about a family with two younger siblings and a teenager getting ready for breakfast, featuring the wonderful storytelling and word wizardry of Malorie Blackman and the illustrations of prize-winning Dapo Adeola.

Nibbles the book monster has escaped and eaten his way through various books in the library. Can you find him?

Let’s get to know monsters a little better.What do they like? What don’t they like? The simple text promotes conversations about what makes us different, using slightly scary – but thrilling! –monsters. 

Join a colourful array of monsters as they head to school for a fun-filled day, in this energetic rhyming picture book.  

A red monster and a blue monster live on opposite sides of a rocky mountain: they can’t see each other, but they can argue through a hole in the rock. After a particularly bad argument they begin throwing rocks at each other, destroying their home – but perhaps they’re not so different after all.

Max is being naughty, and his mother sends him to bed without dinner, calling him a ​“wild thing.” As Max sits in his fury, a boat appears, taking him to a world of monsters and wild things with big claws and teeth. A classic picture book and one of the first to explore a child’s feelings of anger.

The classic tale of Bernard, whose distracted parents fail to notice that their son has been eaten and replaced by a monster.

As the sun sets, little monsters everywhere get ready for bed. Whether you’re a skeleton, vampire or a phantom, you still need to tidy away your toys, brush your teeth and snuggle up for a bedtime story. A mischievous rhyming bedtime story for sleepy little monsters.

Monster Friend makes a yucky sandwich for lunch, but when he eats it, he realises maybe heshouldn’t have…

School is only fun with a monster in class! 

Plenty of epic, slapstick battles, spooky, icky, sticky ghostliness, bum jokes and fun are the background to an evolving friendship that doesn’t always go smoothly and a backstory that is starting to get very dark. The second adventure in the series.