Readers spend the day with second-grader Marvin Monster and his friends, werewolves, goblins, and banshees, at Grim Castle Elementary School. Marvin learns an important lesson about the importance of keeping your promises. A new series that teaches important social skills. Kids will learn an important lesson from this charmingly gruesome monster and his friends. The text is lively and the monster-world details are developed throughout--from Slug Slime hair gel to howling class to snailwiches and toad-warts. Not since the Adams Family has a group of characters grabbed readers young and old alike. Illustrator Bonnie Everett-Hawkes brings the gruesome characteristics to life in page after page of artfully drawn scenes.