Book review: The Three Little Monsters and the Cranky King: A Story About Friendship, Kindness and Accepting Differences.

 

Publisher's description

Discover the importance of being kind, accepting others, and making new friends!

Enlightening and playful, The Three Little Monsters and the Cranky King tells the story of a lonely monster king watching over his land of monsters from a castle high atop a bumpy hill. The little monsters in his kingdom are warned to stay away from him because their parents think he looks too scary. But when three little monsters stray too far from home, they unexpectedly find themselves face-to-face with the king. What they find is a very lonely king, who is really not mean at all.

With lovely and endearing illustrations, this is a book adults will love reading over and over again with their kids as readers learn about making unexpected friends. The Three Little Monsters and the Cranky King is the perfect children's picture book to read for soccer season, monster month, or every day of the year!

My review (first submitted on Reader's Favorite).

The Three Little Monsters and the Cranky King, A Story About Friendship, Kindness and Accepting Differences, by Teydon Rae, illustrated by Ignacio G., is a gorgeous children's book that will undoubtedly appeal to both parents and kids. To parents because it tackles essential values that we want to share with our beloved children. To kids because of the amazing illustrations and the characters who are monsters. There are kid monsters and a king monster; everything you can dream about in a story. It deals with so much more than what we can immediately see. It shows children that believing anything about people you do not know is not the best attitude. It also shows them that being cranky can be linked to being lonely, and that is an easy issue to solve. Being open-hearted and generous usually does the trick. To top it all, it shows that diversity is good, that we are all different, and that it is precisely this difference which makes us unique and makes life great and worth living. The three little monsters have learned so much, a bit like the three little pigs, who managed to outwit the wolf. What counts is not your size, your age, your appearance but what is in your heart. A book to cherish and share that I highly recommend!