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Monster Stories
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SOLVED: Children's/YA > SOLVED. Children's Fantasy pocket-sized illustrated book of Monster stories. Kids relocate a yeti? in a construction zone? Giant or cyclops creates an ocean. Funny and little eerie. Cover: green? Read around 2005-2009? [s]

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Alina (sylvandreams) (sylvandreams) | 4 comments this is a long shot... but i suddenly remembered this book i really loved as a kid (2005-9?) someone please tell me if this sound familiar:
it was a (green?) pocket size book full of stories about monsters. there was one about the origin of the ocean; a cyclops who made a very salty cauldron of soup that gets spilled by someone. one about two kids who helped a monster who lived in a cave find a new home. there was something about a monster that lived in a shed in an elementary school... ringing any bells?


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Tab (tabbrown) | 5084 comments Were the illustrations realistic, colorful, full page, etc?
Do you remember any other monsters besides Cyclops?
Were the stories scary, funny, etc?


Alina (sylvandreams) (sylvandreams) | 4 comments the illustrations varied from story to story, but were all full color and mostly cartoonish. i think the relocation story was about a yeti but i’m not sure. like i think his cave was in a construction zone and the kids were in the area for vacation and found him and possibly took him home.

most of the stories were just funny and a little eerie, i think there were a few creepy ones and a few shorter like poems or songs.

i distinctly remember they had a icky version of ‘here comes the bride’ that i’m pretty sure continued ‘big fat and wide’ but i cannot for the life of me remember any more, except that it probably involved like boils and insects and stuff. sorry i can’t be more specific!


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Mai | 1280 comments Maybe It's Behind You!: Monster Poems by Paul Cookson? (published in 2003 or at least that's what I saw in other websites; on Goodreads it says it was published in 2010 so that would be too recent for your search). Found searching online.
It's Behind You! Monster Poems by Paul Cookson

Synopsis:
A fantastic collection of very funny monster poems from two bestselling poets. Find out what to do if there is a monster under your bed, a zombie in the garden or a cyclops in your school. Beware the mighty Sockodile and the Death Kiss Suction Grandma Leeches and if you see a mutant vampire teacher . . . run for your life . . .


Alina (sylvandreams) (sylvandreams) | 4 comments i don’t think so... only a few were poems. thank you though


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Lobstergirl | 44961 comments Mod
Blue is still looking and wrote:

"i think the cover was green, i remember there was one story about kids relocating a yeti, and one i think about a giant or cyclops creating an ocean because he was crying? or maybe he made very bad and salty soup? both?
there was one poem/parody that started out- “here comes the bride, big fat and wide”
yes it’s horrible i know but it has been stuck in my head ever since and continues to describe lots of nasty body stuff. possibly the bride is a troll."


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Ayshe | 4721 comments Monster Stories - my suggestion in the other thread.


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Kris | 55182 comments Mod
Blue, I copied plot and book details to the header/ topic title. Feel free to edit it.


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Kris | 55182 comments Mod
Worldcat.org's description of Monster Stories by Andy Charman Monster Stories by Andy Charman - Ayshe's suggestion:

"The colorful tales of monstrous dinosaurs and odorous ogres, strange princesses and alien adventurers will have you hiding under the bedclothes

A collection of stories and rhymes bursting with mischievous monster madness and merriment."

Table of Contents:
"Monster chef
Troll love
The lost valley
Princess Prissy and the Stinky Bog monster
The fantastic firework
The school monster
Two heads are worse than one
The monster no one believed in
The nasty nice spell"

Authors:
"Andy Charman, Beatrice Phillpotts, Caroline Repchuk, Louisa Somerville, Christine Tagg, Diana Catchpole, Robin Edmonds, Chris Forsey, Claire Mumford"

https://www.worldcat.org/title/507978...


Alina (sylvandreams) (sylvandreams) | 4 comments Thank you so much I’m pretty sure this is it!!! I think there was another book I was partly confusing it with but I don’t remember much about it so that one’s likely lost to me unless I remember some other details.


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