Product Description

Two monsters live on either side of a mountain. Sometimes they talk through the hole in the mountain, but they never see each other. One evening, they get into a silly argument about whether day is departing or night is arriving, which escalates into a rock throwing fight, which eventually destroys the mountain, and enables the monsters to see each other's point of view and live together as friends.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #113804 in Books
• Published on: 2005-10-07
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover

From the Back Cover
Two monsters live on opposite sides of a mountain, and talk through a hole in the middle, but life is lonely and tempers are running thin:
"You're just a stupid old wind-filled prune!"
"And you're a bandy-legged, soggy cornflake!" replied the second monster.
Will they ever stop bickering and bridge the gap over the mountain?

A modern classic from the creator of ELMER and NOT NOW, BERNARD!

About the Author
David Mckee:
David McKee's first book was published in 1964. His books are now published in many languages throughout the world, and many of them have been adapted for television. He is one of the leading contemporary children's book creators.

Customer Reviews

A delightful book for children and managers young and old?!
This is a fantastic fun book which is interesting and funny for all children, with a well meaning and delightful message to help children understand tolerance.

For adults, this book really is the wrong category, it ought to be a number one best seller for all senior management to help gain a better understanding of company politics! So very often departments are trying to acheive the same goal but don't always appreciate their respective colleagues perspectives, this book gets this message across beautifully.

Two numpties
This is an excellent book, hilarious and insightful. Don't let the bulk of the previous reviews put you off. There are no expletives in this book just playful banter between two monsters whose initial stances are eventually shown as what the were; ignorant.

Ironic, really.

A gem of a book
My children loved this book when they were little (they are now 19, 17 & 16) - They used to cry with laughter at the funny names the monsters called each other and they have not grown up insulting, rude or violent adults.

I am now purchasing a copy for a friends daughter and hope she gets as much joy from it being read to her as my own children did.

If I had read some of the reviews on here I may never have brought the book in the first place which would have been a real shame and my children would have missed out on a lot of laughter and for the record one of the worse insults used in the book is "you soggy cornflake" children have a simple, silly sense of humour and this book is perfect for them.