My Beastly Book of Monsters

In this lively book, first published in France, readers are invited to embellish, interact with, and color in more than 150 silly-rather-than-scary monsters. Each monster is labeled with a descriptive tagline in the upper corner of each page for easy browsing (for example, “Bad Hair Day”). Readers are asked to throw a crayon at one monster's bull's-eye belly, draw clothes for a four-armed monster, cut out one page to make a paper airplane (“send these monsters far away. Very far away”), and wrap another monster in bandages at the “Monster Hospital.” Kids should enjoy the simple, imaginative activities offered by this zany menagerie. Ages 4–up. (Mar.)