Alan H Jordan

The Monster on Top of the Bed - Creative Edition: with My Monster on Top of the Bed to Encourage Children to Write Their Own Story (Suzy & Karrit) (Volume 2) Alan H Jordan 1st edition

The Monster on Top of the Bed - Creative Edition, with My Monster on Top of the Bed was created to encourage children to write their own story.

Your child or grandchild is really the author of the first part of this book. When a child writes their own story directly on the Manuela Pentangelo?s artwork, they develop a strong sense of self confidence. Almost universally, when children read their story to parents, grandparents and other adults, who ?oooh? and ?ahh? over the book that they wrote, their self-esteem rises. If a child needs inspiration, they simply turn to the back of the combined book and find the story The Monster on Top of the Bed.

But, the benefits don't stop there. Often, after a child re-reads a story that they authored, they begin to read other stories to get inspirations for the next story that they want to write. Night fears are likely to melt away because the child has figured out their own solution. This is especially true when they read their book to parents, grandparents and other adults, who praise them and reinforce the child?s own ideas. The Monster on Top of the Bed was written for children between the ages of three to seven, but many older children have a lingering, or subconscious, fear of monsters. When they read the story to younger siblings, they also benefit.

If you?re not familiar with The Monster on Top of the Bed, here?s a synopsis:

Once upon a time there was a little girl named Suzy, who used to jump up and down on her bed having just a great time. This scared a young critter named Karrit who lived under Suzy?s bed. But, Karrit heard Suzy do all sorts of nice things for people, and he wanted her to be his friend. Still, Suzy ate strange things like cakes made out of pans (pancakes) and the toes of toemays (tomatoes) and?he couldn?t believe it?he heard her talk about eating something truly horrendous.

One day Karrit heard Suzy tell her mother that she was lonely and needed a friend. Because of that Karrit decided to visit Suzy, and Suzy got to meet him. At first Suzy was scared of Karrit. After all, he had red, scaly legs, and a blue nose, but he seemed a little scared too. Suzy treated Karrit the way that she would want to be treated if she had gone to his house.

Suzy figured out what was confusing Karrit, and she was sorry to have scared him. She showed him a hotdog (she didn?t eat dogs that were hot) a tomato (she didn?t eat the toes of matoes) and a carrot (she definitely didn?t eat Karrits).

Suzy made Karrit feel that she liked him, and that she wanted him to be happy. Because of that, the two of them played. They kept getting to know each other better until one day they both realized that they didn?t have to be afraid of each other, and that it was a mistake for each of them to think the other was a ?monster.? Suzy and Karrit became best friends, and neither was afraid of monsters again.

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