Monsters First Day of School book review by Morgan

Title of the Book: Monsters First Day of School 

Author Name: Karen Bell-Brege 

Reviewer's Name: Morgan 

Publisher: Team B Creative LLB 

 Date of Publication: 2016 

 Rating: 1-5 Stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 

Today I read the book Monsters First Day At School by Karen Bell-Brege. This book is about many little monsters experiencing what it is like to go to their first day of elementary school. It helped demonstrate that even with struggles school is a fun exciting place that has many opportunities to try new and different activities. The biggest connection this book made to the IB learner profile is with open mindedness. While it might have been scary for all those little monsters to go to school for the first time, they were able to overcome their fear and were able to ejoy their day with their friends. This book also has a happy joyous mood kept throughout the story which made it an easy and fun read. The theme that continues throughout this book is that sometimes trying scary new things cann be rewarding. The story also had nice pictures throughout the book. 

The illustrator, Darrin Brege, used an abundance of different colors throughout. He also made very cute creatures with a variety of different shapes. It looks like he used digital art to create these cute monsters. The emotion conveyed from the illustrations was friendly and happy. The book states,”It was a monstrous first day, in fact it was a delight” (Bell-Brege 31). This highlights the intent of the book is to teach kids that school is a fun environment to learn new things and meet new friends. This would calm the nerves of scared young children about to go into elementary school. In conclusion, I would recommend this book to be read on the first day of elementary school. I would give this book five stars because of the quality of the illustrations and the fun cute topic.