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Soman, David

The Monster Next Door

40 pp. | Dial | September, 2016 | Trade ISBN 978-0-525-42783-4 $17.99
(3) K-3 A boy has a new friend: a purple monster. They play together from their neighboring tree houses, but the relationship sours when a musical misunderstanding escalates into anger (and a water balloon fight). The digitally assembled watercolor, charcoal, and colored-pencil comic panels highlight the frenemies' interactions and set the pace as the spare story addresses concepts of trust, forgiveness, and companionship.
Reviewer: Lauren Causey

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