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PreS-Gr 1 Everyone is always calling Bobby, and he's tired of it. In order to avoid it, the boy fantasizes that he is not Bobby, but rather he's a horse, a lion, a race car, a spaceship, etc. A few of his imaginings are a little gruesome. "Better not call me again because I'm a monster. You know what a monster does when you yell Come here!' at him? A monster comes all right. And it tears you to pieces." The fact that he then becomes a giant who kills the monster (his former self?) is both confusing and does not mitigate the violence of his previous imagining. As the person (presu...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

"She's always calling Bobby, Bobby, Bobby!' all the time. I get tired of it." So the quintessentially independent little boy escapes the unseen adult's irritating summonses by becoming a succession of vehicles and creatures, culminating in a monster bent on destruction—and then, in a monster-terminating giant. As the threats continue to escalate ("You are goin...Log In or Sign Up to Read More