Jo-Jo couldn't sleep.
He didn't like the darkness under the bed. He thought a monster might be hiding there ...
well ... this time ... there WAS!
A tiny speck of a monster, so small he could hardly be seen.
But he had a big empty feeling inside him that made him hungry, very HUNGRY!
The Monster Who Ate Darkness is Amaris' favorite book this week.
She cannot put it down ever since she picked up from the library. She laughed every time she's reading it and we sat down and read it together tonight.
It is about a tiny monster, so small you can hardly see. He keeps going around the darkest corner at the house, under the bed, in the cupboard, at the attics to eat up all the darkness like his food.
After eating up the darkness in the house, he slips out to find rabbit holes, bat caves, dark forest ... until he eats all the way up to the moon.
He eats ALL THE DARKNESS OF THE NIGHT!
So the moon no longer shines in the sky and the stars no longer twinkle ...
After reading this book with my five years old, I wonder why she finds this story so funny. The answer probably is children see the world differently. They use imagination and they love crazy things like this little black monster who likes to put darkness as spreads on burnt toast!
Recommend this book for children between K2 to Grade 2 who love crazy things.
The Monster Who Ate Darkness is available online at The Book Depository
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