It’s the costume parade, but poor Abi forgot!

So a last-minute outfit is all that she’s got …

Everyone’s dressed up for a costume parade – except for Abi. She’s embarrassed by her last-minute outfit. How can her friends help her find the courage to join in?

Welcome to the School of Monsters: the funniest, silliest and most accessible series for first readers, by Australian Children’s Laureate Sally Rippin! Start by reading only the last word on every line and work your way up to reading the whole story. With tumbling rhymes and an infectious sense of humour, the weird and wonderful students at the School of Monsters are guaranteed to spark a love of reading!

DR SEUSS MEETS SESAME STREET: The perfect series to engage and encourage emerging readers, with bouncing rhymes, simple vocabulary and a colourful cast of characters.

GLOBALLY BESTSELLING SERIES: With over two million books in print and available in fifteen languages, School of Monsters has fans all over the world and plenty of titles in the series for hungry new readers!

FEATURES DECODABLE VOCABULARY: Includes simple text for beginner readers to sound out, helping them learn and master a variety of words.

STAR AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR DUO: Australian Children’s Laureate Sally Rippin and much-loved illustrator Chris Kennett have created an enticing monsters’ universe together.

Readers will love other books in the School of Monsters series:

Snell’s Show and Tell

A Birthday Wish for Bee

Super-fast Skelly

Tish Learns to Swim

Luna Boo has Feelings Too

Milly’s Family Fun

and many more!