We’re rereading The Monster Hunters by Parinita Shetty at my book club in June 2025!
Abhay is convinced that his mother has eyes at the back of her head. She knows everything and sees everything. Yet, she does not seem to believe that there are monsters in every child’s room! Why can’t she see them?
It’s time for Abhay and Nitya to get to work. They must find the monsters. In fact, they decide they will go one step further. For a school project where they have to narrate a real-life story, they will hunt down a monster and talk about the experience.
I love books with driven characters, determined to prove something against all odds, and Abhay and Nitya are perfect. The book had me chuckling, shaking my head, but rooting for the characters anyway – and what more could I ask for from a book?
Monster Games
I love monster games! The wonderful thing about a monster is that it can be anything you want it to be. It could be tiny or huge, one-eyed or a thousand-eyed. As we read this book and imagine monsters of our own, we’ll also play with the fun illustrations, spotting monsters on each page!
Under My Bed
I’ve played this game before, and I love it each time. It’s a little make-believe game, where each child says something along these lines, “Oh no! I can see something under my bed! It looks like the eye of a monster! Whew. It’s just an old torch.”
What will I ‘find’ under the beds of the children who join my reading programme?
What would you need?
We had so much fun exploring The Absent Author at an earlier edition of my reading programme that I realised (again) how much fun it is to work with investigation, hunting for clues and finding evidence. What would your monster-hunting kit consist of? Do you need bicycles and helmets and nets? Or do you need something else altogether? And finally, what would you do if you found a monster?
Join a book club!
We’re rereading The Monster Hunters because we had so much fun with it when my book club read it in 2021! Some of those who were with me then are now in my writing programme for older children; I’m looking forward to introducing this book to a fresh batch of readers!
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