ABANDONED. Children’s book with a surprise twist about a monster child afraid to sleep

[Lauren]

My grandmother has this children’s book, and it could have been published any time between 1950 and the late 70s (though I read it in the late 80s/early 90s). A child is stalling going to bed because she/he is afraid. I think the mother gets a drink and does other things to soothe him or her. All along you think it’s a human child, but at the end, you learn it is a monster child who is afraid a human could be in the closet/under the bed. The artwork was fairly distinctive, something kind of like Maurice Sendak style.

[Lauren]

That should be my grandmother HAD this book. No mystery if she still had it. ;)

[Ayshe]

Clyde Monster maybe?

[Lauren]

Ayshe wrote: "Clyde Monster maybe?"
Good guess, but no. :(

[SamSpayedPI]

If the fact that it's a monster, not a human child, is a surprise twist, it's a spoiler and therefore doesn't belong in the header. It's OK to put it in the body of the thread (with fair warning) just not in the header.

[Lauren]

@Sam My apologies. I wasn’t thinking about spoilers being related to a children’s book.

[Kate]

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[Kris]

No response, moving to Abandoned folder.

Lauren (OP) was last active on the site in March 2019.