Diary of a Monster Sitter: Ask children to imagine they're a monster sitter like Nelly. Have them write a diary entry describing their day looking after a particular monster, highlighting the fun and challenges they encountered. This story now comes with brand-new illustrations; it was previously published in a collection entitled: Grerks, Squurms & Water Greeps. Hidden in Plain Sight: Justified. The monsters that Nelly meets live in ordinary homes in ordinary suburbia, but they don't have babysitters which is why no one knows that they exist; they're too busy looking after their children. Nelly the Monster Sittet has 3 funny stories about creepy animals that are slimy, gooey, spikey, and can see with more than one eye.

Nelly's solution is very simple. She decides she's going to become a monster sitter. But, you know, looking after monsters isn't an easy task. For a start, the monster parents living in each house come in all shapes and sizes. And I really do mean all shapes and sizes. Monster Sitter's Handbook: Children could write a set of instructions on how to look after a range of monsters including its name, description, diet, home, health, how to keep it entertained, bedtime routines and more. Collect them to make a collaborative Monster Sitter Adventure handbook. and somebody else might imagine it differently. It's up to the reader to decide how the character talks and what they look like. Nelly keeps a secret diary of all her monster-sitting jobs, which she makes sure her snotty sister Asti never finds. And in this book, there's a great map showing where all the monsters live. I'd probably think they might be quite nice. They might be like the Water Greeps. What I love about Nelly is she's so brave and even though her sister, Asti, is really critical of everything she does Nelly kind of stands up for herself, and she stands up for the monsters as well. Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: Asti's foolish to Nelly's responsible. Nelly willingly becomes a babysitter to monsters because she wants to help out the minorities; Asti is less of a foolish sibling and more of a lazy one, who cares more about keeping up appearances instead of important things like schoolwork.Theme Naming: Many of the monsters have a running theme with their family names. The Water Greeps have names based on water/rainfall. his two orange tongues actually blurred into one. In a slobbering, slavering frenzy of snarls, he reduced the branch to sawdust. Nelly stood motionless in the garden for a moment, trying to banish thoughts of what jaws like that could do Kes Gray is one of the Independent's top ten children's authors, and winner of the Red House Children's Book Award. Monster Masterpieces: Encourage children to draw their own interpretations of imaginative friendly monsters and show them as if in an art gallery. Create a classroom display to appreciate and celebrate their creativity.

Nelly's face tingled with cold as two more feelers sprung forward from Dollop's shoulders and fastened themselves to her cheeks. She'd never been kissed Squurm style before. It was like having your face pressed into a bowl full of cold jelly." Ughh! The Water Greeps family have Drip (father), Drop (mother), and the children Plip, Plop ... and Seaview? I loved being read aloud to when I was little, and I remember my mum and dad were really good at doing different voices. And then I went to my friend's house, and her dad read us the same book, but he didn't do the voices. I was really disappointed. What I love about reading is you imagine a character one way,

Everybody Calls Him "Barkeep": Nelly's father is referred to throughout the series as "Nelly's dad", but only Nelly's mother calls him by his real name: Clifford.

At number 55, Nelly meets a couple of slimy Squurms called Dollop and Splat. "They were like slugs, giant, orange, upright slugs, with moist, glistening bodies and wet, foaming mouths. All over their heads, soft, yellow eyes nestled like egg yolks. Ever swum with a Water Greep, or played hotscotch with a Hottentop? Every time Nelly rings on a new monster family's doorbell she's up for a new challenge. Come on her monster-sitting adventures in this laugh-out-loud funny third book in the NELLY THE MONSTER SITTER series. Course, monsters eating you is one thing, but when Glug runs away, Nelly knows she's in even bigger trouble. Imagine telling two monster parents that you've lost their precious baby. Eeek!The last story is about three Water Greeps. Nelly has to take care of three water greeps and while she takes care of them she finds them playing with guns. She asks them where they found it and then remembers the news report about 3 bank robs. So she calls the cops and she solves the case with the help of the Water Greeps The next story is about a Squrims. The Squrims son ALWAYS loves to win so Nelly and him play diffenet games. Then Nelly ask if he wants to play hide-and-seek she has 30 mins. to find him and she cant. I the end she finds him and she contuines baby sitting monsters. Even Evil Has Standards: Asti's friend that comes to Asti and Nelly's birthday. She joined in on Asti's prejudice remarks towards Freeb the Huffaluk, but even she agreed that Asti deserved being thrown on the roof.