Parents' Guide to Go Away, Big Green Monster!

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Christopher Healy By Christopher Healy , based on child development research. How do we rate?

age 3+

Classic book gains cute new scene, narration by Emberley.

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What's It About?

GO AWAY, BIG GREEN MONSTER!, the app, is an interactive form of the popular children's book by Ed Emberley. A monster appears, bit by bit, on each page -- first the eyes, then the nose, and so on. But when the narrator tells the monster to go away, he does, bit by bit. The author narrates the book as the words appear at the bottom of each page. Kids can interact with the monster's facial features on the screen.

Is It Any Good?

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Parents say ( 1 ):
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Go Away, Big Green Monster! is a pretty straightforward adaptation of the classic picture book. With this electronic version, you lose some of the magic that lay in the way the cutouts in the paper revealed more and more of the monster with each turn of a page. But what you do get here is a cute added ending scene and the ability to hear the story narrated by either a young boy or author Ed Emberley himself.

Talk to Your Kids About ...

  • Families can talk about scary stuff -- talk to your young kids about their fears. Understanding how things work or what they really are can often alleviate fears.

  • Give kids construction paper cut into shapes (one big circle, two to four smaller circles, an oval, several triangles, and a few squiggly lines) and have them make, and then take apart, their own monster.

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