Little monsters is a book by Jan Pienkowsk, a writer from Warsaw. I and was originally published in 1981 but was reproduced in the last time in 2008. This book is a very short hard back book only ten pages long which goes through a series of describing five monsters. The first monster is described by playing with his food. The page pops up revealing a bird appearance type and its wings and beak pop out an exposes his long tongue and a couple of not so happy looking stripy worms swirling out from the page. The second rude monster has is green with his hand waving above his head and a long spotty tongue sticking out who you can say ...  Read the complete review

British / Polish illustrator Jan Pienkowski has produced some cracking children's books over the years, although he is probably best known for the 'Meg and Mog' series in which he collaborated with author Helen Nicoll. Pienkowski is a specialist in the genre of pop-up, in which, he has created around twenty books in his time. One of my favourites works has to be 'Little Monsters', which is currently available in two versions. The first is the white hard-back which measures only 10.5 x 7.5 cms, and belongs to the 'Minipops' range of books. The second is the larger, red covered 24.4 x 18.2 cm version which can currently be purchased from Amazon for £4.48. ...  Read the complete review