Mossy Hollow Monsters - Stories for Kids: 15 Funny Monster Short Kids Ages 6-8 About Courage, Kindness, and Believing in Yourself — Read-Aloud Tales Boys Girls

At Mossy Hollow Elementary, the school day starts when the sun goes down.Fifteen monster kids drag themselves out of bed at dusk, complaining - exactly like kids everywhere. Breakfast is at dusk. Recess is under the stars. Lunch happens somewhere around midnight.They can fly, freeze, spark, ooze and scream.None of which helps one bit when your best friend won't listen. Or you lose a game. Or you're the new kid. Or you break something you can't unbreak.That's the tricky stuff. That's what these fifteen short stories are about.Meet the class: - Milo the vampire gets butterflies before his first solo flight - and discovers that "nervous" and "excited" feel exactly the same on the inside.- Nova sparks and short-circuits the lights when she loses at board games, until she learns to catch the fizz before the bang.- Pepper the dragon sneeze-fires her friend's clubhouse and finds out that "it was an accident" isn't the whole story.- Bones the skeleton is stuck with a permanent grin, so nobody can tell when he's sad - including his best friend.- Bree the banshee has spent two years whispering, until a rockslide gives her a reason to use her big voice on purpose....plus a yeti, a werewolf, a slime, a gorgon, a ghost, a witch, a cyclops, a troll, a goblin and a zombie - all taught by Ms. Bramble, a hundred-and-something-year-old witch who has never once told a student the answer to anything.Why parents and teachers keep reaching for this book: - The right length for ages 6-8. Each story is a 5-10 minute read - perfect for one-a-night bedtime reading, or a quiet classroom read aloud.- Big feelings, made easy to talk about. Every story quietly builds one real skill: naming emotions, calming down before you burst, taking turns, telling the truth, and noticing the kid sitting alone.- No lectures. No moral tacked onto the end. Kids get a funny story about a monster. The lesson arrives all by itself - and it gives you something to talk about afterwards.- Spooky-cute, never scary. Fog, capes, potions and moonlight. Nothing that keeps anybody up at night.- Written for boys and girls. A balanced cast of fifteen monster kids, so every reader finds someone who feels like them.- Brilliant for reluctant readers. Short chapters, loads of dialogue, and a monster on every page.Fifteen stories. Fifteen monsters. One very foggy little town your child will want to visit again and again.A gift-perfect collection for any 6, 7 or 8 year old who loves monsters, Halloween and slightly spooky things - and for every grown-up who'd rather their bedtime story did a little quiet work along the way.Scroll up, click Buy Now, and meet the monsters of Mossy Hollow tonight.