But on the other hand, I did enjoy the silliness of the story, with the illustrations of the monster adapting to Bernard's life and the repetition of 'Not now, Bernard. It is quite simple to read, basic vocabulary and sentence structure but a rather deep story if you take the time to reflect. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. This is a children's classic that children will relate to, with mother being too busy (on her phone?

Although it took me until the end of this book to realise this, as at first I thought Bernard had been eaten by a monster. I have been reminded of the importance of taking an active interest in my child's development and in performing regular back years checks for boy-eating Bernard butchers.The rest of the class as the audience could think of questions to ask each character, whilst the children ask questions the teacher could scribe key phrases and responses on the whiteboard. At first I was shocked because I thought how can the story carry on from this, however, after reading on I realised that the monster was resembling Bernard's inner anger and the reason why his parents kept on saying to the 'monster' 'not now, Bernard' was because deep down it still was Bernard.

After hearing this book in a seminar it’s really made me think of how this could be incorporated into many cross curricular aspects in school. The format of this book is: softback cover with matt finish, tiresias font of 75pt, and Grade 1 UEB Braille. By 2019, she was arguing in private that Britain could safely walk away from the EU without a comprehensive deal. The teacher could pretend to be the TV presenter and set the scene, three children could act as the mum, dad and Bernard.I liked this book as a child and obviously didn't read any more into it, than a monster eating Bernard.