Charlie is bored until he discovers that his toys, Teddy, Robot, and Don key, can talk and that they, too, are bored because he doesn’t play with them anymore. Together they transform Charlie’s desk into the Monster Who Eats Boredom and do battle against boredom. The illustrations for this story about the power of imaginative play change from gray tones during Charlie’s period of boredom to more and more colorful ones as the toys in his bedroom join in with Charlie’s play, effectively highlighting the dramatic transformation of a boring Sunday to a fun-filled one . ca

Originally published as Je m’ennuie in French by Albin Michel Jeunesse France, in 2004.