Picture Book Month Day 29: Picture Books as Writing Mentor Texts featuring MONSTORE

MONSTORE

by Tara Lazar

Illustrated by James Burks

Aladdin, 2013

Summary:

Zack needs a monster to keep his sister away from his room, but every monster he buys doesn’t work, and buying more monsters doesn’t work either. He has to find a solution to his monstrosity of a problem.

Mentor Text Writing Skills:

* Tone

* Alliteration

* Word Play

* Vivid Verbs

Interested in writing picture books?? Tara Lazar, author of MONSTORE, is the mother of PiBoIdMo. Check out her website for more details.

For more information about mentor texts, check out these links:

Mentor Text Resources

Mentor Text Lesson Plans

Mentor Text Tips

Glossary of Mentor Text Terms

List of all Picture Book Month Posts