Customer Reviews

Monsters, Inc. (The Junior Novelization)

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My pet peeve among children's books is when they are too darn LONG. It takes forever to read this one aloud as it is written, and my 4-year-old gets pretty bored. (Of course, your four-year-old's mileage may vary.) I usually make up a short, one or two sentence synopsis for each page, and "read" that instead of the long paragraph.

Also the illustrations are just, well, funky-looking. They've got a strange, hard-edge, shadowy look that's nothing like the movie. The writers would have done a lot better to stick to movie cels, or else lighter, brighter caricatures.

This one ended up in the "hardly ever read it" pile.

My 3-year-old son picked this book up at the library. He's very interested in monsters right now and loves this movie, so I thought it would be a fun book to read with him. When we opened it up, the first thing I noticed was that it was very long, which is not ideal for his age because he gets bored easily. As I started reading the book, the writing style seemed more like a book review than an actual story. It's very dry and hard read in places because the words don't seem to flow well. It is adapted from the movie, so I can see why the writer would do that, but it doesn't make the book fun or interesting to read. It may be a good book for a new reader to practice their new skill, but not a good, fun story-telling book for a parent to interact with their children.

My 1 & 1/2 year old loves Monsters Inc. and he loves reading books so this was a no brainer. It reads very much like Finding Nemo (Read-Aloud Board Book), but is easier to understand. I found that the Nemo book has spotty english at times. This book does not suffer the same fate. It has great pictures form the movie as well.

My older son loved this book when we introduced it before the DVD. He was too young to sit through the lengthy text but we solved the problem by just telling him our version based on the movie. He bonded instantly with Sully when grandma bought him the giant stuffed monster and "monster" was one of his first words. These days he takes the book out and "reads" his version to his little brother. He's only seen the movie twice (because he has restricted tv viewing time) but he tells a pretty good story.

Monsters Inc. is about monsters trying to scare every child in the human world. The monsters go through doors to each child's closet door. They scare the children and collect the children's screams for energy to run the monster world. All the monsters are afraid of the children because they think they are toxic. Everything goes wrong when a little girl named Boo gets out of the human world. Sulley and Mike are best friends. At first they are afraid of Boo, but Sulley becomes like a kitty to Boo. Sulley and Mike help each other to get Boo out of the monster world. I liked the book when Boo sneezed on Mike. Then Mike sprayed disinfectant spray in his eye when was going spray it on his arm. After he sprayed his eye he covered his eye, stomped his foot and he screamed "Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" I also liked it when Mike and Sulley went through the door and wound up in the long corridor passageway. They wound up on a mountain where it was snowing up above were they live. The book was so good that I want to see the movie right away. I want my family to be the first three people in the theater

Monsters Inc. is about monsters trying to scare every child in the human world. The monsters go through doors to each child’s closet door. They scare the children and collect the children’s screams for energy to run the monster world. All the monsters are afraid of the children because they think they are toxic. Everything goes wrong when a little girl named Boo gets out of the human world. Sulley and Mike are best friends. At first they are afraid of Boo, but Sulley becomes like a kitty to Boo. Sulley and Mike help each other to get Boo out of the monster world. I liked the book when Boo sneezed on Mike. Then Mike sprayed disinfectant spray in his eye when was going spray it on his arm. After he sprayed his eye he covered his eye, stomped his foot and he screamed “Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!” I also liked it when Mike and Sulley went through the door and wound up in the long corridor passageway. They wound up on a mountain where it was snowing up above were they live. The book was so good that I want to see the movie right away. I want my family to be the first three people in the theater!

Poor Little Mike Is Harmed By Boo. I Personally Didin't Like The "Mr. Bill-Like" Incident When Boo Hurts Poor Mikey! It Wasn't Like We Expected. We Wanted A Quiet Book & Guess What?? It Went, "Reeek!!!" "BWAAAH!!" And Finally, When I Read It, Mike Was Hurt By Evil Boo!! :-..( Poor Monsters! If You Want Something Else, Buy Popeye From (...)!! (It's In Highland)