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=//Leonardo the Terrible Monster// by Mo Willems=

Reviews

 * **Ms. Smith's class**: We liked the one page of Sam's telling why he was crying. We also enjoyed the funny words and the gross things. We noticed that the pictures really match the story. We didn't like Sam being sad and the size of Leonardo.
 * **Mrs. Pratt-Dixon's class:** We the use of creative words like "unsuspecting." We liked how funny it was: the drawings, the monster with lots of teeth, the expression "scare the tuna salad out of someone," and when Leonardo was trying to scare Sam.We liked the use of onomatopeia. We liked how it was exciting. We thought the illustrations were creative. We liked how Sam was chasing Leonardo at the end. Some of us didn't like the way some of the pages were blank; it would have been better with some background details.
 * **Mrs. Cook's class:** We liked how the author used huge words that filled up the page when the boy was yelling. We liked how the words we on different levels of the page sometimes instead of just being straight across because it made it a little more interesting. We liked how the illustrator showed that the boy was lonely because he was all alone on the page. We liked hearing the little boy's side of the story as well as the monster's. We liked how sometimes one word was in a different color to make it stand out. We liked how the size of the words changed. Some of us would have liked more detail in the background of the pictures. And some of us would have liked brighter colors.