How Monsters Wish to Feel and Other Picture Books
Juliette Ttofa
How Monsters Wish to Feel and Other Picture Books
Age Rating, Reading Level & Content Guide
Seven Storybooks Set
by Juliette Ttofa
The text is written at a 4th grade reading level, the subject matter is intended for middle graders (ages 9–12), and the content is mild with minimal sensitive material.
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About This Book
Here’s a secret: monsters don’t just scare—they feel too. They wish to be brave, happy, and strong just like you, but that’s only the beginning of their amazing journeys through friendship, loss, and finding calm.
Themes
Quick Assessment
This collection of seven beautifully illustrated storybooks explores important emotional themes like resilience, self-care, friendship, stress, and loss. Designed for children ages 9-12, these therapeutic stories can be used alongside a guidebook to help parents, educators, and practitioners support emotional development in a gentle, accessible way.
Why we rated How Monsters Wish to Feel and Other Picture Books 9ME
How Monsters Wish to Feel and Other Picture Books is written at a Level 4-5 reading level across 138 pages. Strong independent readers around grade 5.5 can typically handle this book on their own; with parent or teacher support, How Monsters Wish to Feel and Other Picture Books works for readers up to grade 6.5.
We rate How Monsters Wish to Feel and Other Picture Books as 9ME ("Moderate — Emotional") because the content sits in the "Mild" range — mild conflict — the kind a child encounters in normal play and sibling life. The strongest signals come from emotional weight — these are the dimensions parents should evaluate against their reader's tolerance.
No specific content flags were raised by community reviewers, which is consistent with the mild intensity score.
Thematically, How Monsters Wish to Feel and Other Picture Books explores friendship, emotional resilience, self-care, loss, and stress — these threads give the book room to mean different things to different readers.
Good fit for
- ✓ Children in the Ages 9-12 range — the maturity and attention span match the story's pacing.
- ✓ Patient readers who enjoy slower, character-driven stories.
- ✓ Kids drawn to stories about friendship, emotional resilience, self-care.
Maybe not for
- ! Reluctant readers who need a fast hook — the pacing here rewards patience.
For Parents
Content Intensity
9ME — Moderate — EmotionalLight conflict or tension. Mild peril resolved quickly.
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Reading Insights
Hook Factor
1/10A steady, thoughtful read that rewards patient readers.
Discussion Potential
1/10A lighter read — great for independent enjoyment.
Book DNA
Multi-dimensional content fingerprint
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Details
Book Length
- ISBN
- 9781138556478
- Pages
- 138
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Published
- 2018
- Type
- Fiction