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Monsters Are Afraid of The Moon
Monsters Are Afraid of The Moon is a children’s picture book written and illustrated by Marjane Satrapi and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. The book was originally printed Les monsters n’ aiment pas la Lune in France 2001 and translated into English by Jill Davis September 2006. The story is about a little girl, Marie, who gets terrorized by monsters at night. To keep the monsters away Marie cuts the moon out of the sky and places it above her bed, but this causes problems for the village cats.

Synopsis

 * Marie is happy girl that picks cherries from her cherry tree
 * At night three scary monsters would come out and pinch Marie’ nose, pull on her hair and stick their tongue out at her.
 * To keep the monsters away Marie cuts the moon out of the sky and hangs it in a birdcage over her bed.
 * The monsters left Marie alone, but without the moon the streets were totally dark at night. The cats couldn’t see and kept bumping into each other.
 * To make things even worse for the cats the rats that like the dark, come out of the sewers at night.
 * The rats took over the streets, stealing and waking everyone up.
 * The cats, fed up with the rats, go to their king for help
 * The cat’s king goes to see Marie asking for her to return the moon to the sky.
 * Marie pleads her case about the three monsters, but the cat king has a solution.
 * Marie agrees to give the moon back in exchange for a cat to sleep at the edge of her bed and keep the monsters away.

Cultural Influences
The book has been translated into several languages, including Dutch, German, Greek, English, Spanish and Swedish.

Reviews
One Amazon reviewer who bought Monsters Are Afraid of The Moon for her five-year-old daughter wrote, “My Daughter really took to the book. The story was longer than most of the book she has been reading but for many nights in a row, she read the entire book on her own. There is more text on the pages than in “learning to read” type books but not so much that it is overwhelming.” Overall the English edition seems to get very good feedback. Out of the three reviews on Amazon two are four stars and that other five.