How to Catch a Monster by Adam Wallace and Andy Elkerton - A Mom Monday Spotlight and GiveAway

A Mom Monday Spotlight:

I am so excited to help share How to Catch a Monster with you.  Adam Wallace and Andy Elkerton are one of my favorite children's book duos.  You are always guaranteed a fun adventure when you open up their books.  One full of a witty story and engaging art.  My young readers are both reading Middle Grade stories now but we will never pass up one of these stories, no matter how old you are you are guaranteed a fun read from these two!  

Check out How to Catch a Monster which is available now and don't forget to enter the giveaway!  

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Book Description:

From the creators of the New York Times bestselling How to Catch a Leprechaun and How to Catch an Elf! 

There's a monster in my closet,
with claws, and teeth, and hair,
and tonight, I'm going to scare him!
He lives just right through there...

Get ready to laugh as a young ninja heads into the closet to meet the monster that’s been so scary night after night! But what if things aren’t what they seem and our monster isn’t scary at all? What if our ninja hero is about to make a friend of strangest sort?

GiveAway:

( 1 copy of How to Catch a Monster)

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Author:

Adam Wallace is an author and cartoonist who loves writing and drawing ... this is lucky ... because he's an author and cartoonist who writes and draws!
Adam's passion is to bring excitement and energy and humour and joy to children (of all ages!) through his books and videos.
He spends his non-writing time thinking about writing and going to as many live music shows as he can. He's also teaching himself piano, and is about to take on the ukulele as well.
Adam's books include inspiring novels (The Pete McGee series), How to Draw books (Rhymes with Art), gross short stories (The Better Out Than In series), and funny, hilarious, crack-you-up books (Jamie Brown is NOT Rich).

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Illustrator:

Hello world!

My name is Andy Elkerton, and I’m a children’s book illustrator living in Oban on the west coast of Scotland.
I specialise in bright, colourful illustrations for picture books, advertising, t.v. and character design.

After many years working in the field of computer games, I decided to go back to my illustrative roots and do what I’d always wanted to do…draw children’s books.

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Don't Touch This Book by Bill Cotter - Review Spotlight and Giveaway

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Author: Bill Cotter

Publication Date:  28 March 2016

Publisher: Sourcebooks Jabberwocky

Series:  StandAlone

Genre:  Children's Picture Book

Age Recommendation: 2 and up

Rating: 4 Stars

~ I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review ~ 

Book Description:

Larry the lovable monster from Don’t Push the Button! is back with another hilarious, interactive adventure!

I know what you’re thinking: this is a pretty cool-looking book. But…

DON’T TOUCH THIS BOOK! (Don’t even try it, bub.)

Okay, okay. You can touch, but you can only use ONE finger.

Whoa. How’d you do that?

Larry is a loveable monster, but he has trouble sharing. It’s up to you to show him how it’s done!

My Review:

Well I for one am so glad to see our favorite little purple monster Larry back even with all his rules, because sometimes some rules are meant to be broken and Larry is really good at breaking his own rules and letting you break them too.  

Larry as we all know is not a great sharer but maybe it will be okay if you just set your finger right...here and then as is prone to happen with our good friend Larry things start to take a turn into adventure and fun. 

I loved how one little touch turns into an interactive, fun, and laughter filled adventure for the reader. One minute your laying your finger gently on Larry's book because he says thats okay but nothing else and the next you are roaring like a dinosaur and then taking to the skies.  

This is such a fun book for your young readers/listeners and would make a perfect addition to any 

Pre-K/Kindergarten teachers library.  What a fun break for circle time, giving your class a chance to giggle and play and learn the joy of sharing, especially the sharing of books.  Don't Touch This Book is also a wonderful addition to any home library.  It will keep your youngest children entertained, it's simple words will allow your early readers the ability to read it on their own, (and they will want to because it's so fun) it will even catch the interest of your older readers and have them sitting down with their siblings to participate...better yet read the book to them!  

This book for various reasons, it's a picture book, it's a touch book, it's an active book, is best read in it's hardback format.  If you are a fan of Adam Leahaupt's Warning: Do Not Open This Book, or B.J. Novak's The Book With No Pictures you will throughly enjoy this one.  I can not recommend this one enough to any elementary teacher, you and your class will not be disappointed!  

~ HAPPY READING ~ 

If you loved Larry as much as we do don't miss his first book, Don't Push the Button!

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Book Description:

Larry is a lovable monster (if a bit too curious) and the star of this hilarious, interactive picture book debut

There’s only one rule in Larry’s book: don’t push the button.

(Seriously, don’t even think about it!)

Even if it does look kind of nice, you must never push the button. Who knows what would happen?

Okay, quick. No one is looking... push the button.

Uh, oh.

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Bill Cotter grew up in Rocky River, Ohio. After graduating from art school, he moved to New York City, and worked as a Pre-K art and music teacher in Manhattan. Bill currently lives in Baltimore, Maryland, where he spends days doodling and hanging out with his basset hound named Goober.

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