Flashlight Monsters Invade Hollywood

Author: Mark Shulman

The movie director says, ï¿1/2Find me a star! Make it hairy and scary!ï¿1/2 He gets more than heï¿1/2d bargained for when a parade of monsters come trouping into the studio. Among them are Tail Smasher who breaks cameras, Dragon Breath who belches flames, and Near-Monster Ned, who likes to chew heads. These and other monsters can be projected on a wall as kids create scary stories of their own. . Flashlight Books are funny and a little scary, but their most unusual features are the illustrations, with die-cut shapes that glow in the dark. Better yet, when kids turn out the lights, then hold one of the bookï¿1/2s die-cut paper monsters so that it catches a flashlight beam, a monster silhouette is projected on the wall behind the picture. Kids can make their own shadow monster movies after theyï¿1/2ve read each bookï¿1/2s humorously rhymed story.