Deschutes Public Library

Doris throws a slumber party for Ben and her other monster friends, complete with games, snacks, and an effort to stay up all night.

Monsters, witches, and even a dragon quake in fear when a prank transforms an ordinary person into a terrible beast.

An expedition under the bed reveals a variety of creatures--hairy green, spiny red, warty and winged--that are not scary, but they are all afraid of the newest arrival.

One beautiful, starry night, a little witch wants to go for a ride on a broom but first she must help a little monster clean up a mess.

Bella Legrossi and Boris Kleanitoff, the messiest and cleanest monsters in Booville respectively, do nothing but argue until the night of Harry Beastie's Halloween party.

Upon hearing a swamp monster's splashing, rumbling approach, a boy hides in a tree, where he is soon joined by his sister, brother, two cousins, and even the monster itself, until Ma arrives to bring them all home to bed.

Bud the monster is not a good listener, but when he almost misses a party at his own house he finally figures out a way to solve his problem.

When young monster Harvey hears his parents refer to the new baby they are expecting as "another mouth to feed," he imagines his new sibling as an enormous mouth--and nothing else.

While sewing the laird's trews by moonlight in a haunted church yard in return for a sackful of gold, an aging seamstress outwits a terrible monster.

A counting book that features a variety of spooky Halloween creatures, from one spider to thirteen ghosts.

Big Scary Monster is one misunderstood beastie. He loves to jump out and surprise his friends, but he's not mean, really. Yet when his friends start hiding from him, he decides to look for new creatures to frighten, only to wind up finding out he's a bit of a scaredy-cat himself!

A duckling follows a dragonfly and accidentally changes into a small monster.

At bedtime, four little monsters ask their mother which one she loves the most, and one by one, she reminds them of why they are each special.

A young boy watches as a mischievous goblin creeps and crawls through the house searching for something to eat.

A bestselling Taiwanese illustrator teams up with a renowned British author to present a fantastical, heartwarming tale.

A mysterious old pirate lures a group of rowdy sailors to an island with buried treasure, but there is a surprise awaiting them when they get there.

Little monster spends a day at work with his father.

Mrs Muffly lives by herself in a house on top of a hill. She has always been a bit strange, but lately she has been acting very, very, strangely indeed. Could this be because she is keep a huge monster in her house?

Die-cut pages through which bits of a monster are revealed are designed to help a child control nighttime fears of monsters.

Monsters sing their own version of this popular song that encourages everyone to express their happiness through voice and movement.

In this variation on the traditional cumulative rhyme, a monster swallows ants, a lizard, a bat, and other creatures to try to cure a stomach ache than began when he swallowed a tick.

A young American girl's picky eating habits transform a small worm into the famous Loch Ness monster. Includes facts about the biology of pickiness.

A goblin who for many years has been hiding himself so that he does not frighten anyone finally finds a family.

One by one, ten tiny oni, Japanese goblin-like creatures, grow larger and larger as they beat their drums on the sand, chasing away bad dreams.

Bugbear and Bugaboo are creatures who like to play scary tricks on children, until the night they get scared themselves.

The letters of the alphabet are represented by an assortment of ogres devouring all sorts of foods.

Spunky Feliciana Feydra LaRoux outsmarts the Cajun boogeyman who pays nighttime visits to misbehaving children.

Gives rhyming instructions for dealing with monsters.

The scariest monster in the world stomps through the forest, scaring away the animals of the forest until one day, when the monster gets the hiccups and turns to the animals for help.

When the knights of the castle are awakened by the noise from the Madcap Monster Ball, they decide to join the party.

Leonardo is a terrible monster -- he can't seem to frighten anyone. When he discovers the perfect nervous little boy, will he scare the lunch out of him? Or will he think of something better?

Trying to avoid bedtime, Lucy uses her imagination and some crayons to draw a monster to play with.

Trying to avoid bedtime, Lucy uses her imagination and some crayons to draw a monster to play with.

Maggie wants to get rid of the monster that visits her room every night and accepts her mother's suggestion to simply ask the monster what it wants.

The sea monster lives down at the bottom of the ocean, but one day he sits among the rocks on the shore and watches a boy and his dog playing in the rock pools. Suddenly, the current carries the boy's toy boat out among the waves, and when he tries to reach it the boy is swept far out to sea. An old fisherman tries to rescue him and receives help from an unexpected quarter.

After Sammy's dumping of the lima beans he does not want to eat starts a neighborhood trend to put rejected vegetables in a hole in a vacant lot, a terrible lima bean monster rises to terrorize the town.