I am reviewing a copy of A Monster Like Me through Shadow Mountain Publishing and Netgalley:
Thanks to her Big Book of Monsters as well as a vivid imagination Sophie is an expert on monsters. She can clearly identify the monsters in her school and neighborhood, bullies are trolls and goblins. She thinks of her nice neighbor as a good witch and her new best friend is a fairy. Sophie sees herself as a monster too because she has a monster mark on her face, that’s what she calls it, the doctors and her Mom call it a blood tumor. Sophie does her best to hide it, but the mark covers almost half of her face. She feels that if she looks like a monster on the outside, she must also be a monster on the inside.
Sophie knows being the new kid in school is hard, but when others look at you like you’re a monster is even harder. Sophie is sure that in just a matter of time her other kids, her doctors and even her Mom will figure it all out, and then they will her just like her Dad did, because no one will want to live with a monster.
