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My Mum's a Bug-Eyed Monster
“Some mums are small and dainty. Some mums are tall and elegant. My Mum stomps around the house like a baby elephant!” Mums come in all shapes and sizes, but there’s never been a mum quite like this. With boggly eyes and arms like a gorilla’s, she can pull up tiny trees and terrifies teachers in the playground. So when she heads into school for sports day, she unleashes an afternoon of monster mayhem. My Mum’s A Bug-Eyed Monster is the debut picture book by writer and illustrator team, Andy Rigden and Jim Landen. It’s about feeling different, unstoppable mums and wellie boots.
32 pages, Paperback
Published March 7, 2019
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May 10, 2019
“Mum’s come in all different shapes and sizes”.
I need to start with a quote from the book;
“When we go out shopping,
People turn their heads and stare,
They snigger at Mum’s curly tail
And giggle at her hair."
What Andy Rigden and Jim Landen have written and illustrated in the most vibrant colours imaginable is that we’re all different. Some of us wear hearing aids, others are in wheelchairs, some have deformities, but it doesn't mean that just because people might not look what is classified as "normal" that they're any different and if fact, we might learn so much from them.
This is truly a remarkable book. It teaches a very vital lesson that we are so quick to judge before we get to know the person we might be thinking doesn't conform to what we expect is "normal".
I know from first-hand experience what it’s like to go out with someone who wears a hearing aid and speaks “differently” because they are deaf and the sideways glances the person gets. I hope that this book is sold in the millions so that we can teach both parents and children that regardless what people look like, how they talk or walk, or how they interact, that they deserve the same amount of respect as any supposedly “normal” person gets.
Can you imagine what a wonderful world this would be if we accepted and treated others as we'd like to be accepted and treated ourselves?
Andy Rigden and Jim Landen have made learning about “bug-eyed monsters” a fun, beautifully illustrated and funny story. I hope that their message helps change children’s perceptions of people who are “different” change and then maybe we won’t have children bullied.
Treebeard
Breakaway Reviewers received a copy of the book to review.
I need to start with a quote from the book;
“When we go out shopping,
People turn their heads and stare,
They snigger at Mum’s curly tail
And giggle at her hair."
What Andy Rigden and Jim Landen have written and illustrated in the most vibrant colours imaginable is that we’re all different. Some of us wear hearing aids, others are in wheelchairs, some have deformities, but it doesn't mean that just because people might not look what is classified as "normal" that they're any different and if fact, we might learn so much from them.
This is truly a remarkable book. It teaches a very vital lesson that we are so quick to judge before we get to know the person we might be thinking doesn't conform to what we expect is "normal".
I know from first-hand experience what it’s like to go out with someone who wears a hearing aid and speaks “differently” because they are deaf and the sideways glances the person gets. I hope that this book is sold in the millions so that we can teach both parents and children that regardless what people look like, how they talk or walk, or how they interact, that they deserve the same amount of respect as any supposedly “normal” person gets.
Can you imagine what a wonderful world this would be if we accepted and treated others as we'd like to be accepted and treated ourselves?
Andy Rigden and Jim Landen have made learning about “bug-eyed monsters” a fun, beautifully illustrated and funny story. I hope that their message helps change children’s perceptions of people who are “different” change and then maybe we won’t have children bullied.
Treebeard
Breakaway Reviewers received a copy of the book to review.
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