Monsters Go

How do monsters get where they’re going? In a silly showcase of vehicles, Daisy Hirst offers a fresh spin on a favorite toddler subject.


There’s more than one way for a little monster to travel! Skeeter speeds by on a scooter, and Willa likes to walk. Beatrice and Bobby take the bus, and there goes Rodney riding a rabbit! Kieran has high hopes of getting there by kite, and then there’s Catya, being carried by a cat. Every vehicle-loving toddler who likes a good giggle—and what toddler doesn’t?—will come running for Daisy Hirst’s charming and colorful ode to things that go.Children will also enjoy the soft palette and fuzzy lines of the silkscreen illustrations that create each unusual and highly expressive monster. The mixture of traditional and fantastical travel methods skillfully introduces a bevy of vocabulary. Savvy caregivers will also appreciate the imaginative conversations that this story opens, and the sturdy board-book design means that it will be around for many rereads as toddlers consider how they would like to travel. . . . These monsters will happily take you places!
—Kirkus ReviewsDaisy Hirst is the author-illustrator of the companion board books Monster Clothes and Monster Food. She is also the creator of The Girl with the Parrot on Her Head, Hilda and the Runaway Baby, Hamish Takes the Train, and I Like Trains, as well as three picture books about monster siblings Natalie and Alphonse. Daisy Hirst lives in Cambridge, England.