This benign fantasy is a reassuring way to imagine a monster's nocturnal adventures. This is a room full of fun In this follow up to Huggly Gets Dressed, Tedd Arnold presents a charming, non-scary monster who wants to do the things that human children do. He tastes some toothpaste - Not bad - and takes a bubble bath. Arnold's (Parts) signature cartoon illustrations, overlain with a fine tangle of scrawly lines, create modulations in color and an almost crackled look. Huggly: The Monster Under the Bed LibraryThing Series Huggly: The Monster Under the Bed Series author: Tedd Arnold 14 Works Popularity 5,208 (1,400 Members) 2,369 Books 23 Reviews ½ 3. One night, Huggly sneaks into the human bathroom to explore. Scenes of Huggly's google eyes peering through white cotton briefs over his head, his scaly green torso clad in a striped T-shirt with ''a nice hole for his tail'' and his monster hands covered with socks will likely tickle children.

27), this situation provides the slimmest of plots, but pours on pure silliness. Children and adults will laugh along with Huggly, the Monster Under the Bed, as he learns all the tricky ins and outs of the human world - like getting dressed, taking a bath, and making friends. Huggly decided to try for himself.'' As in Mordicai Gerstein's Stop Those Pants! (Children's Forecasts, Apr. Huggly is a pudgy, somewhat klutzy, googly-eyed, altogether unfrightening monster who lives under the bed of a ''people child.'' One night Huggly bumps his head on the boy's bureau, becomes intrigued by the clothes inside and gamely tackles the project of dressing: ''He wondered why they wear the stuff.

Huggly Takes A Bath by Tedd Arnold