Nelly The Monster Sitter: 3: Huffaluks, Muggots and Thermitts: Book 3

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The great thing about this book is it gets you to really think about monsters as normal people. So, now when I'm walking down my road, I'm imagining that maybe there's a couple of monsters live there, and if I did see like a green, slimy tentacle coming out of a letterbox I wouldn't be so hasty to run away and scream. Diary of a Monster Sitter: Ask children to imagine they're a monster sitter like Nelly. Have them write a diary entry describing their day looking after a particular monster, highlighting the fun and challenges they encountered.

Nelly the Monster Sitter is a children's pentalogy by British author Kes Gray. It follows a girl called Petronella Morton, who places an advertisement in the local newspaper offering monster families a chance to have her babysit their children for the evening. Hilarity Ensues as she learns to understand different monster cultures and the best ways to look after their kids. I'd probably think they might be quite nice. They might be like the Water Greeps. What I love about Nelly is she's so brave and even though her sister, Asti, is really critical of everything she does Nelly kind of stands up for herself, and she stands up for the monsters as well. Everybody Calls Him "Barkeep": Nelly's father is referred to throughout the series as "Nelly's dad", but only Nelly's mother calls him by his real name: Clifford. Ever swum with a Water Greep, or played hotscotch with a Hottentop? Every time Nelly rings on a new monster family's doorbell she's up for a new challenge. Come on her monster-sitting adventures in this laugh-out-loud funny third book in the NELLY THE MONSTER SITTER series.Nelly's solution is very simple. She decides she's going to become a monster sitter. But, you know, looking after monsters isn't an easy task. For a start, the monster parents living in each house come in all shapes and sizes. And I really do mean all shapes and sizes. Course, monsters eating you is one thing, but when Glug runs away, Nelly knows she's in even bigger trouble. Imagine telling two monster parents that you've lost their precious baby. Eeek! The Water Greeps family have Drip (father), Drop (mother), and the children Plip, Plop ... and Seaview? Even Evil Has Standards: Asti's friend that comes to Asti and Nelly's birthday. She joined in on Asti's prejudice remarks towards Freeb the Huffaluk, but even she agreed that Asti deserved being thrown on the roof. Theme Naming: Many of the monsters have a running theme with their family names. The Water Greeps have names based on water/rainfall.

Hidden in Plain Sight: Justified. The monsters that Nelly meets live in ordinary homes in ordinary suburbia, but they don't have babysitters which is why no one knows that they exist; they're too busy looking after their children.and somebody else might imagine it differently. It's up to the reader to decide how the character talks and what they look like. Nelly keeps a secret diary of all her monster-sitting jobs, which she makes sure her snotty sister Asti never finds. And in this book, there's a great map showing where all the monsters live. At number 55, Nelly meets a couple of slimy Squurms called Dollop and Splat. "They were like slugs, giant, orange, upright slugs, with moist, glistening bodies and wet, foaming mouths. All over their heads, soft, yellow eyes nestled like egg yolks. Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: Asti's foolish to Nelly's responsible. Nelly willingly becomes a babysitter to monsters because she wants to help out the minorities; Asti is less of a foolish sibling and more of a lazy one, who cares more about keeping up appearances instead of important things like schoolwork.