Leonardo, a small greenish-beige creature with tiny horns blue eyes and pink nose, hands, and feet, first appears in a lower right-hand corner looking dejected, but when he makes his momentous decision, his circular head fills two pages. Sam's list of woes marches across a spread. It is printed on pastel grounds in large, fancy letters that change color for emphasis. Willems's familiar cartoon drawings work hand in glove with the brief text to tell this perfectly paced story. Leonardo makes a decision that is sure to surprise and delight readers. But Sam proceeds to recite a litany of wrongs that actually brought on his tears: My mean big brother stole my action figure right out of my hands., and on and on. When the boy cries, Leonardo is convinced that he is a success. So one day he comes up with an idea: He would find the most scaredy-cat kid in the whole world.and scare the tuna salad out of him! After much research, he chooses Sam, sneaks up on him, and it all he. He's not big, doesn't have hundreds of teeth, and isn't even weird. PreSchool-Grade 1–Leonardo is a terrible monster–terrible as in he can't scare anybody.
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