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"Welcome to Monsterville, where the residents are anything but ordinary. The monsters here are ""friendly! thoughtful! shy and scary,"" much like their human neighbors. Readers will meet a monster house who plays hopscotch and makes the sidewalks quake, laugh at a bubblegum-headed monster's epic tantrum, and cry with a monster called Sadness. This quirky collection of illustrated poems is a celebration of friendship, emotional intelligence, and creative play as a form of healing."

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Welcome to Monsterville is a delight. The poems are fun and the illustrations wondrous. This is the perfect volume to have and to read not only as an adult to all the children in your family. Once you start turning the pages, you can't help but crack a smile from ear to ear. The poet and the illustrator hit a nerve on every page. FANTASTIC. - Virgil Suarez, author of 90 Miles: Selected and The Painted Bunting's Last Molt A delightfully surprising collection of poetry and art that is sure to inspire its readers to pick up a pen and explore their own creativity. -Jarrett Lerner, author-illustrator of the EngiNerds series With perfect personification (monster houses that dance), colorful characters (Bubblegum Head), lively language (Dockaboodlecoo!), and a whole range of emotions from gratitude to shyness to anger to sadness, children will easily see themselves in the world of Monsterville. And they'll want to visit Monsterville again and again-to find joy, escape, and monsters who understand them. In this collection of welcoming poems, master poet Laura Shovan gives us a verbal hug with words of acceptance and appreciation that we all can use right now: 'You're a weary, silly, laughing, / weeping, wonderful creature.' - Janet Wong, author of You Have to Write

Welcome to Monsterville is a delight. The poems are fun and the illustrations wondrous. This is the perfect volume to have and to read not only as an adult to all the children in your family. Once you start turning the pages, you can't help but crack a smile from ear to ear. The poet and the illustrator hit a nerve on every page. FANTASTIC. - Virgil Suarez, author of 90 Miles: Selected and The Painted Bunting's Last Molt A delightfully surprising collection of poetry and art that is sure to inspire its readers to pick up a pen and explore their own creativity. -Jarrett Lerner, author-illustrator of the EngiNerds series With perfect personification (monster houses that dance), colorful characters (Bubblegum Head), lively language (Dockaboodlecoo!), and a whole range of emotions from gratitude to shyness to anger to sadness, children will easily see themselves in the world of Monsterville. And they'll want to visit Monsterville again and again-to find joy, escape, and monsters who understand them. In this collection of welcoming poems, master poet Laura Shovan gives us a verbal hug with words of acceptance and appreciation that we all can use right now: 'You're a weary, silly, laughing, / weeping, wonderful creature.' - Janet Wong, author of You Have to Write

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"Laura Shovan is a children's author, educator, and Pushcart Prize-nominated poet. Her chapbook Mountain, Log, Salt, and Stone won the inaugural Harriss Poetry Prize. Her work regularly appears in journals and anthologies for children and adults. Laura's middle grade novel-in-verse, The Last Fifth Grade of Emerson Elementary, won multiple awards, including NCTE Notable Verse Novel. Her novel Takedown was selected for Junior Library Guild, PJ Our Way, and the ALA's Amelia Bloomer/Rise Feminist Books Project. A Place at the Table, written with author/activist Saadia Faruqi, is a Sydney Taylor Notable. Laura is a longtime poet-in-the-schools for the Maryland State Arts Council and serves on the faculty of VCFA's MFA program in Writing for Children and Young adults. www.laurashovan.com Michael Rothenberg was a poet, editor, artist, and publisher of the online literary magazine BigBridge.org, co-founder of 100 thousand Poets for Change (www.100tpc.org), The ""Read A Poem To A Child"" Initiative, and co-founder of Poets In Need, a non-profit501(c), assisting poets in crisis. He published over 20 books of poetry, most recently The Pillars (Quaranzine Press) and Drawing the Shade (Dos Madres Press). His editorial work includes several volumes in the Penguin Poets series: Overtime by Philip Whalen, As Ever by Joanne Kyger, David's Copy by David Meltzer, and Way More West by Ed Dorn. He was also editor of The Collected Poems of Philip Whalen published by Wesleyan University Press. He was Florida State University Library's Poet in Residence. His most recent book of poetry, In Memory of A Banyan Tree, Poems of the Outside World, 1985-2020, (Lost Horse Press) published in 2022."

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