Title: Diary of a Monster
Author: Valeria Davila
Artist: Laura Aguerrebehere
Genre: Children's / Humor / Monsters
Year Published: 2018
Year Read: 2018
Publisher: Crackboom!
Source: eARC (NetGalley)
Content Rating: Ages 5+ (Some Gross Humor)
Buy on: Amazon // Book Depository
I
would like to thank NetGalley and Crackboom! for providing me a copy of
this book in exchange for an honest review.
After reading “Diary of an Ogre,” I was actually surprised that there were several companion novels to
the “Dear Diary” series and I was so excited to check out the newest book in the series
“Diary of a Monster!”
The book explores about what life for a monster is
like as we get to see the world through a monster’s point of view. The titular monster in the story writes in
his diary about the various things that he does as a monster such as terrifying
the people he comes across, being one of the smelliest beings among his fellow
monsters and eating worm cakes and mosquitoes!
Wow! Valeria
Davila has done it again with writing this series in such a hilarious and
creative way! I loved the way that Valeria Davila explored the world
through a monster’s point of view and we get to see what kind of activities the
monsters do and how they feel about doing these activities. I also loved the fact that the titular
monster in this book is actually proud of being a monster, despite all the
disgusting things that he does throughout the book such as being the smelliest
monster around and eating mosquitoes and worm cakes. It shows that the message of this book is
being yourself, no matter how strange or frightening you might look towards
other people. Laura Aguerrebehere’s artwork is as usual humorous and fun to look
at as we get to see the monster’s activities in all its disgusting glory! I especially loved the images of the monster scaring
off the tourists on an island and the green stink clouds that surround the
monster to indicate how smelly he is.
Parents should know that there is some gross humor in
this book such as images of the monster cooking up a stew made out of rats and
cockroaches and images of the monster eating mosquitoes and worms.
Overall, “Diary
of a Monster” is a fantastic book for anyone who is a huge fan of books
about monsters and it is definitely worth the read! I would recommend this book to children ages
five and up since some of the gross humor might be a bit too much for some
children.
This series sounds so fun!
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