Nelly the Monster Sitter: Ultravores, Rimes and Wattwatts

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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.

The next story is about a Squrims. The Squrims son ALWAYS loves to win so Nelly and him play diffenet games. Then Nelly ask if he wants to play hide-and-seek she has 30 mins. to find him and she cant. I the end she finds him and she contuines baby sitting monsters.

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Ever played catch with a six-legged Gog, or made pancakes with an oozy orange Squurm? 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 first book in the NELLY THE MONSTER SITTER series.

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!

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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. 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. 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.