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Marvelous Monsters ༼༼ ᕤ෴ᕤ ༽༽

While monsters have long served humans as metaphors for fear of what is different and/or unknown — the word "monster" comes to us in part from the Latin words for warning and demonstration — there's been a necessary rehabilitation and welcome expansion of the concept of the monster in Children's literature and media in particular. From Maurice Sendak's "Where the Wild Things Are" to Sesame Street to "Monsters, Inc.," monsters are not JUST lurking in the shadows to antagonize or gobble us up. In this more generous, compassionate light, monsters can also help us to empathize with other human and nonhuman creatures and consciousnesses, reflect on and shift our perspectives, challenge assumptions and biases and process and understand our tender and turbulent emotional lives. That's why I like to think of monsters as ✧・゚: *✧・゚:* marvelous ✧・゚: *✧・゚:* — real/imaginary beings who are connected to wonder, surprise, astonishment and even smiles.

Daniel Boone Regional Library

91 items

  • Board BookBerkhamsted, Hertfordshire, UK ; Nashville, TN, USA : Make Believe Ideas Ltd, [2020] — SE GRE
  • Board BookSeattle, Portland : Hazy Dell Press, [2015] — SE SUL
  • Board BookSomerville, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2020. — SE HIR
  • Monster Meditation

    Being Patient With Cookie Monster

    find the other titles in this series at the following link: https://dbrl.bibliocommons.com/v2/search?query=monster%20meditation&searchType=keyword&f_AUDIENCE=juvenile
    Board BookNew York, NY : Random House Children's Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, [2021] — SE MON
  • BookHonesdale, Pennsylvania : Boyds Mills Press, an imprint of Highlights, [2019] — E STA
  • BookBoston : New York : Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2014] — E RUB
  • Book[Ashland, Ohio] : Paw Prints Publishing, [2023] — E VAL
  • also available as a board book, SE LLE
    BookNew York : Little, Brown and Company, 2018. — E LLE
  • BookLondon : Otter-Barry Books, 2017. — E BAT