libraryrobin's review against another edition
3.0
Cute and humorous in a way monster-loving kids will enjoy.
jshettel's review against another edition
5.0
LOVE!! I'll be using this book in my MDLV literacy class when we do our "Love it or Loathe it" writing activity. A perfect little book!
maidmarianlib's review
4.0
Great play on the "I Love You" stories. Great rhyme and rhythm, and funny illustrations.
pqlibrarian's review against another edition
4.0
The illustrations are wonderful - very cute! While an adult will understand this, I'm not sure a child would. I don't see it being a good book for storytime. Maybe one-on-one with an older child.
srq_book_lover's review against another edition
1.0
I am sorry but I have to disagree with the 96% of the people who liked this book. In today's society, having someone say that they loathe someone else is not appropriate. Isnt there enough hatred and loathing in this world that we dont have to teach it to our children as a bedtime story? Regardless if it is a story about monsters or not, to deem it as an endearing quality and a form of "love" is misleading. I would be upset if someone told my child that the loathed them because it was in a bedtime story that their mother read to them.
I read this book in the book store and actually read it out loud and there was another woman there who gave me a blank stare. She thought that I was joking and making up a story. At least at this point I knew I wasnt the only one to think that this is the wrong message to send to our children.
I read this book in the book store and actually read it out loud and there was another woman there who gave me a blank stare. She thought that I was joking and making up a story. At least at this point I knew I wasnt the only one to think that this is the wrong message to send to our children.
itsnkbitch's review against another edition
5.0
I gave this book to my boyfriend for Valentines Day!
rynfrances's review against another edition
4.0
I really liked this book and thought it was extremely cute, but I don't know that I'd use it with kids younger than kindergarten. You'd definitely need to talk about what the word "loathe" means and talk about how monster love seems to be the opposite of human love. I think for kids under kindergarten age it would likely just be too confusing for them to understand the joke that is going on.
uniqueenie's review
4.0
Hilarious. It's like I love you, except with monsters. I was going to try it for a preschool storytime, but my colleague said it fell flat when she tried it. Maybe for kindergartners? Man. I love it. Or I should say I loathe it.
debz57a52's review
2.0
I liked the clever backwards language in this book, but I think my son didn't quite understand that it was kind of a big long joke, from a human's point of view. We did talk about what the word "loathe" means, though, and we talked about how the monsters seem to love each other, rather than hate each other, so maybe he got the basic idea in the end.
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