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Your pal Mo Willems Presents Leonardo the Terrible Monster

Willems, Mo. Book - 2005 E WIL, Kids Book / Picture Books / Mythical Creatures / Willems, Mo 2 On Shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 4.6 out of 5

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Leonardo is truly a terrible monster-terrible at being a monster that is. No matter how hard he tries, he can't seem to frighten anyone. Determined to succeed, Leonardo sets himself to training and research. Finally, he finds a nervous little boy, and scares the tuna salad out of him! But scaring people isn't quite as satisfying as he thought it would be. Leonardo realizes that he might be a terrible, awful monster-but he could be a really good friend.

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Funny submitted by fairytale on August 13, 2011, 2:38pm Funny book -- enjoyed it.

Leonardo submitted by camelsamba on August 13, 2011, 6:10pm Would you rather be a terrible (that is, not scary) monster or a good friend? Maybe you can be both. The real difficulty would come in being a good (scary) monster AND a good friend.

Sparse drawings (very different from much of what we read these days!) and sweet story. The page where Sam just pours out all his woes is notable by way of contrast with all the rest.

Cute submitted by hcf on July 25, 2014, 1:46pm Kids will enjoy this.

Bad Monster submitted by Alliemayzee on July 31, 2014, 6:46pm My kiddos and I enjoyed this book! But we pretty much love everything by this author. Always entertaining.

I still quote this book, five years later! submitted by doctorfang on August 2, 2014, 6:49pm This book inspired one of the favorite things that I say to my son when I put him into bed: "I'm going to hug the tuna salad out of you!"

The monster in this book goes from scaring the tuna salad out of the kid to hugging the tuna salad out of the kid. It's a very sweet story, but really, how much tuna salad does this kid eat? Someone should tell his parents that tuna can contain a lot of mercury, and I'm not talking about Freddie.

A favorite submitted by ashflowtuff on July 27, 2016, 10:40am This is one of my favorite kids books ever. Leonardo and Sam are so sweet and just trying to figure out how to get through this thing called life. Really nice story.

Great Read Aloud - being a friend not a bully submitted by gwenenelson on August 5, 2019, 3:48pm This is one of my favorite read alouds in my classroom. What does friendship look like?

Nice submitted by irmcpherson on July 31, 2021, 6:06pm Another good book by Mo Willems.

More Than a Monster submitted by Meginator on August 21, 2021, 9:10am As always from Mo Willems, this picture book is a winner with heart and humor in equal measure. Poor Leonardo is an ineffective monster, but comes to the realization that he can be more than a monster if he chooses to reexamine his talents. The book is quite large but makes good artistic use of its space, although it will be difficult for smaller hands to hold by themselves. This isn’t my favorite Willems book, but he’s so far ahead of the pack that it’s still very good.

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PUBLISHED
New York : Hyperion, c2005.
Year Published: 2005
Description: 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 33 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book

READING LEVEL
Lexile: 670

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780786852949

SUBJECTS
Monsters -- Fiction.
Imagination -- Fiction.
Children's stories.