Nelly the Monstersitter

TreeTops All Stars - Oxford Reading Tree

by Kes Gray, Tony Ross

When Nelly asks her dad why monsters never go out in public, he answers, "Because they can never get a babysitter." Nelly decides that she would like to be a monstersitter. But how will she handle the monster of all monsters?

48 pages, Library Binding

First published April 17, 2003

About the author

Kes Gray is a bestselling, multi award-winning author of more than 70 books for children. He eats Ideaflakes for breakfast, spreads silliness on his toast and lives in a place called Different. Kes was the second bestselling picture book author in 2018.

Reviews

[Mir · Rating 3 out of 5]

When Nelly asks her dad why she never sees any monsters, he jokingly tells her that it's, "Because they can never get a babysitter." The empathetic young girl rushes to advertise her monster-sitting services and is soon highly in demand.

[Yousra · Rating 5 out of 5]

Super Cute! The cutest book we've read lately 😃😃

[Imrania · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is a great book for a child who is an able reader in KS1, it consists of 5 chapters and 32 pages.

The book is about a young girl called Nelly who is a monster sitter; this is the first book of many. Nelly is a very brave girl as she is not afraid of monsters and talks to them as if they were no different to her.

I really like the use of descriptive words which are quite challenging to a young reader, such as 'long scaly fingers and revolting nails'.

This book showed the monsters behaving as good 'children' and the human child (Rowen) as bad mannered and rude. In the end the monsters helped Rowen become a well mannered child.

The illustrations are wonderful and very detailed; a child can sit for quite a while and look at the pictures as they match very well with the descriptions of the characters created by the Author (Kes Gray).

[Isaac]

It is quite good with lots of funny words about strange monsters.

[Amy Greenall · Rating 5 out of 5]

good