Monsters eat everything.
Everything is not safe from a monster.
Monsters do not have an enemy.
They are the worst enemy on the planet.
Even the rock monster is the biggest monster on the planet.

My son dictated those lines to me last week. In case you can’t tell, he is obsessed with monsters. Not the hide-under-the-bed, go-bump-in-the-night kind of monster, but land monsters, sea monsters, rock monsters, and random everyday monsters. He talks about them, draws them, and acts like them. He makes up new ones and assigns habitats and personality traits to them. He writes books about monsters and illustrates the text that I write down for him. Here’s one that he did recently:

Some things that I am particularly proud of are the page numbers and the names of the monsters, Mantitalia and Jaligon. I also am impressed by the fact that he is writing little books with stories that (sort of) have a plot.

Now, if I could just get these published…

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