Pointless Story: My Favorite Book, Age 4

[mishalak]

When I was about four or five or so my absolute favorite book was The Monster at the End of This Book. I remembered it today because my co-worker and I fell to talking about our favorite Sesame Street characters and I recited lines from the book that I still remember nearly three decades later. And he laughed. It is a perfect book from beginning to end. The clever ways in which is breaks the forth wall and the way the writer, Jon Stone, captured the voice of a well known television character in in words.

"On the cover, what did that say? Did that say there will be a Monster at the end of this book??? IT DID? Oh, I am so scared of Monsters!!!"

I have not thought of this for years and I am suddenly nostalgic for it. I feel as though I should buy a copy of this book and give it to someone with a child of the right age. I think I loved the copy we had all those years ago to death.

Comments

[onyxlynx]

I hope entirely coincidentally: Somebody on my Network posted this.

[mishalak]

I remember there being an episode with gluing the pages of the book together as well. Perhaps it has been omitted later on for some reason.