Title: A Not Scary Story About Big Scary Things
Author: C. K. Williams
Publication: 2010
I really like how the author gives examples of animals that humans may be scared of and why we shouldn't be. For example, "Well, the little boys knew that snakes were more afraid of people than people were of snakes and that even if you saw one, all you had to do was stop and wait and the snake would slither away from you" (Williams). This is a good life lesson that the book teaches children, so then if they may encounter animals in their real life they'll know what to do and be less afraid.
The illustrations are also really neat because they take different parts of potentially scary animals making a collage of pictures. The author is making you guess what kind of animal they are talking about and the pictures make it look really scary. The author also makes certain words bold and bigger to make the animal seem scary, such as "ten feet tell...Big long claws, teeth and fangs...Rrowwl" (Williams). As the little boy goes through the forest, he encounters the HUGE monster. But as he comes to find out by the end of the book, the big, large monster was just a figment of his imagination. This idea helps show kids, that sometimes we make up monsters in our heads and we just have to "keep walking" and fight through it. As the story comes to a close, we realize that the monster wasn't even really a monster at all...it was just a small, harmless cat. This also shows that sometimes the monsters in our heads end up not being that scary at all.
This story reminds me of the "monsters under your bed" type story where as kids we need our parents to check under our bed and in our closet for monsters. Sometimes we make up things in our head that our scarier than real life. This book reminds us to fight against these scary thoughts, keep going and realize these monsters are part of our imagination, and in real life maybe they're less scary, like the realization that the monster was really a cat.
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