This was the very first Ebook that I read. This book told the story of a town and their special relationship with a friendly monster. The monster lived at the bottom of the hill and helped out the town by eating all of the town’s garbage. This relationship went on for years, until one day the town people hear this cross between an eruption and earthquake. When they investigate, the find the friendly monster had spent the night with a full tummy and burping. The town had grown, and was producing more trash which was more than the friendly monster was used to. The Mayor came off his vacation and told the monster that he needed to eat more and faster. This only made the problem worse. Clouds of monster burp gas hung around the city, and it smelled bad. While the politicians were debating what to do, the children went and played with the friendly monster. They asked why he wasn’t happy. They soon found out that the city was producing too much garbage, and he couldn’t eat it all. The children came up with an idea; they built a place to recycle most of the trash. The unrecyclable part was fed to the friendly monster, and the rest was recycled which made the kids a lot of money. The clouds disappeared and everyone was happy again, except the mayor because the monster only burps in his direction. I downloaded this for my youngest son, who is 7 years old.I would put the story in an older age bracket based on difficult words and comprehension of some parts of the text.It is a book I would recommend for use in school, because it breaks down the world of creating and disposing of garbage for children. I know that our primary school tackles environmental issues in class and this is a good introduction.I do think that bringing it down to a simpler reading level by changing a few words here and there would make it easier to present to younger readers
What do You think about Garbage! Monster! Burp! (2000)?
This is a cute little kids book with a good message.
—zah
