The Monster Who Did My Math

Author: Danny Schnitzlein

Illustrator: Bill Mayer

Title: The Monster Who Did My Math

Genre: Children’s picture book

Sub genre: math, monsters

Theme: fiction

Primary and secondary characters: boy, monster

Date: 2007

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Publisher Company: Peachtree Publishers

Brief summary on how to use for students:  The students will be able to use this book to see that they cannot get ahead if they do not try and do their own work. There is no way that you can get by if someone else does all of your work,

Summary: There is a young boy who does not want to do any of his math homework and he cries out “if only all of this homework were done!”. Suddenly a monster appears and the boy signs a contract with the monster to do his homework. With an A+ paper, the teacher asks him to do a problem at school and he cannot solve it. Going home he angrily calls to the monster and tells him to leave but the monster needs to get paid first. While having to find the rest of the money to pay the monster, he learns how to do math and realizes that math is not that bad. With the boy actually doing his homework, the monster gets smaller and smaller until he disappears.