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Mine's Bigger Than Yours!
A monster of a follow-up to the award-winning Who’s in the Loo?
Little Hairy Monster is sitting on a rock licking a lollipop, when along comes Scary Monster. “I’m bigger than you!” says Scary Monster. “Give me your lollipop!” But Little Hairy Monster won’t no matter how much he tries to bully her, and Scary Monster is in for a big surprise.
Mine’s Bigger than Yours! is a light-hearted take on bullying that young children will love.
Little Hairy Monster is sitting on a rock licking a lollipop, when along comes Scary Monster. “I’m bigger than you!” says Scary Monster. “Give me your lollipop!” But Little Hairy Monster won’t no matter how much he tries to bully her, and Scary Monster is in for a big surprise.
Mine’s Bigger than Yours! is a light-hearted take on bullying that young children will love.
- GenresPicture BooksAnimals
32 pages, Paperback
Published August 4, 2009
About the author
Jeanne Willis
352 books118 followersJeanne Willis was born in St Albans and trained as an advertising copywriter at Watford College. She worked for various agencies creating press adverts and TV, cinema and radio commercials. She is now a full-time writer and has published over 80 books. Her hobbies include gardening, reading (non-fiction), natural history and collecting caterpillars. Jeanne has also worked on scripts for TV, including POLLY POCKET and THE SLOW NORRIS, and a pilot TV series for DR XARGLE. She lives in North London with her husband and two children.
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November 8, 2020
A sweet and short book that touches on not giving into bullies in a subtle way. Not a very deep or intense book but would be a cute end of the day read aloud for lower key stage one.
November 1, 2011
This book I found in a year 1 class and I do believe it's for 5-6yr olds. It's a good book to lay down some basic principles such as why not to bully and how to respond when bullying.
It's a very simple story of a lollipop and two monsters; one big and one small. The small monster is minding his own business licking his lollipop when the big monster comes along to try and steal the lolli by shouting 'Im bigger than you, give me the lolli or I'll...'. The whole story follows this trend and highlights alot of body parts such as feet,nose,mouth,legs etc. For that reason it's a good book to reenforce body parts.
In addition, it's useful to highlight how the small monster responds to the big monster throughout the story as these are useful strategies that children can use to respond appropriately to those mistreating them.
It's good to read with a small/large group of children since the illustrations are big and colourful.
I would recommend every KS1 teacher to have this book in their classroom!
It's a very simple story of a lollipop and two monsters; one big and one small. The small monster is minding his own business licking his lollipop when the big monster comes along to try and steal the lolli by shouting 'Im bigger than you, give me the lolli or I'll...'. The whole story follows this trend and highlights alot of body parts such as feet,nose,mouth,legs etc. For that reason it's a good book to reenforce body parts.
In addition, it's useful to highlight how the small monster responds to the big monster throughout the story as these are useful strategies that children can use to respond appropriately to those mistreating them.
It's good to read with a small/large group of children since the illustrations are big and colourful.
I would recommend every KS1 teacher to have this book in their classroom!
November 13, 2020
Brilliant group read out loud book. Kids I’ve read it to at kindy aged 2.5 - 5 have absolutely loved it. Asking to hear it over and over.
I think delivery of how you read it matters. You chose what to emphasise. I go with the little monster being a little tiny bit sassy very brave and incredibly calm and making good choices about not reacting to a bully. The kids seem to really like her character being like that as she is inspiring to them being so calm and collected in front of a horrible mean monster.
In the end she goes and gets help from her mum - great idea - she tried all other ways to help herself and that didn’t work so she went for help. That’s the angle I go with and the kids think it’s a brilliant story.
The ending is ‘edgy’ perhaps if you are sensitive but the kids absolutely love the fact the bully gets it’s just deserts. Although life isn’t often that ‘fair’ it’s reassuring to kids I think to see some ‘justice’ in books.
It’s a satisfying end in that sense and a little gross - which of course appeals to most kids.
I’m trying to get a second copy of this book but think it must be out of print.
I highly recommend this book if you love reading to kids it’s a fun one to have in your collection of go to great ones. I didn’t expect it when I picked it up but the kids were - and after multiple readings now still are captivated by it. Age range 2.5-6 for sure and maybe even 7.
I think delivery of how you read it matters. You chose what to emphasise. I go with the little monster being a little tiny bit sassy very brave and incredibly calm and making good choices about not reacting to a bully. The kids seem to really like her character being like that as she is inspiring to them being so calm and collected in front of a horrible mean monster.
In the end she goes and gets help from her mum - great idea - she tried all other ways to help herself and that didn’t work so she went for help. That’s the angle I go with and the kids think it’s a brilliant story.
The ending is ‘edgy’ perhaps if you are sensitive but the kids absolutely love the fact the bully gets it’s just deserts. Although life isn’t often that ‘fair’ it’s reassuring to kids I think to see some ‘justice’ in books.
It’s a satisfying end in that sense and a little gross - which of course appeals to most kids.
I’m trying to get a second copy of this book but think it must be out of print.
I highly recommend this book if you love reading to kids it’s a fun one to have in your collection of go to great ones. I didn’t expect it when I picked it up but the kids were - and after multiple readings now still are captivated by it. Age range 2.5-6 for sure and maybe even 7.
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October 30, 2025
Okay -- not exactly the best title for a kid's book. I kept expecting the hairy monsters to compare penis sizes, but that didn't pan out.
This was a different and much more sensible book about how to deal with bullies than the crap that usually is published.
I wasn't too keen on the illustrations. The monsters seemed more like walking topiary bushes than scary monsters.
This was a different and much more sensible book about how to deal with bullies than the crap that usually is published.
I wasn't too keen on the illustrations. The monsters seemed more like walking topiary bushes than scary monsters.
August 10, 2018
My girls found it scary, and not in a good, Halloweeny way. They did not like it. I did not like the approach to dealing with bullies that seems to be suggested i.e. get someone bigger to fight them.
October 16, 2018
The message of not letting bullies get to you was good throughout the story. However, I didn't like the ending - I found it disappointing.
January 6, 2020
A book that brings a smile to your face, good moral behind it as well. The illustrations are beautifully done and really add to the story. Would love to use this with a key stage 1 class.
January 6, 2020
Nice book to use to convey to children that they are all special and have their own unique qualities and talents. Full of a variety of adjectives and verbs so a good stimulus for writing. KS1
April 6, 2009
Cute lil' story
October 30, 2012
A very clever storybook that deals with the subject of bullying in a way that small children can understand.
December 24, 2016
A sweet story for little ones about a big monster trying to bully a smaller monster into giving up the lollipop they were eating. Such a sweet twist in the end.
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