They smiled back.” Another winner from McDonnell-and good Halloween fare, too. Includes biographical information on the prominent zoologist'-Title page verso 740 Accelerated Reader 3.2 Reading Counts 3. The monster’s goodness (and some jelly doughnuts) transform the three little monsters in an entirely believable way: “Monster looked at them and smiled. 1 volume (unpaged) : 22 cm 'Holding her stuffed toy chimpanzee, young Jane Goodall observes nature, reads Tarzan books, and dreams of living in Africa and helping animals. McDonnell’s greatest strength is to explore with tenderness the finest instincts humans show, without making them prissy or maudlin. His first words are “Dank you!” and his first impulse is to hug the little monsters tight. He’s strong enough to smash castle walls, but he has unexpectedly lovely manners. The biggest, baddest monster ever!” Like Frankenstein’s monster, theirs has the same flat head, neck bolts, and automaton walk. Three runty, bean-nosed monsters named Grouch, Grump, and little Gloom ’n’ Doom (he has two heads) decide to settle their perpetual quarreling about which of them is the meanest by making “a monster monster. Jane) monster is even more prone to acts of sweetness and generosity-much to the dismay of his creators. In the 1931 movie Frankenstein, the monster was capable of kindness and innocence, but the villagers turned on him anyway.
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