I read this book to my nearly-6-year-old daughter over several nights. The story starts with Maud Montague getting in trouble at school because of her pet rat Quentin. This leads to her being transferred to Rotwood, a school located deep in a forest. She arrives there and finds that it is a school for monsters, but rather than being scared she loves it. Unfortunately her teacher has worked out that she is a human (and not a monster as Maud has told everyone, a monster of the “tutu” variety she says when asked to reveal the type of monster she is) and he wants her to leave the strictly monster-only school. However he agrees she can stay if she gives him a fright before the end of the week.
This leads to Maud doing various things to try and scare him.
My daughter liked this book. There were funny bits, like Maud’s failed attempts to scare her teacher, and the way she called her monster-type a “tutu”. There were suspenseful bits too, like how the revered head of Rotwood was mentioned throughout the book, and then Maud was summoned and the head was finally revealed.
My own gripe with the book was that the first couple of introductory chapters at the old school were not as interesting as the rest of the book. Once Maud started attending the Rotwood the story took off.
We’ll be reading another of the Monstrous Maud books shortly.
(I got this book for free to review through Amazon Vine. It is listed here.)
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