Goodness Me - More Monsters

I woke up this morning and was just about to have my breakfast when two children from St Peters C of E Primary School in Essex sent me truly revolting monsters ideas. It's hard to enjoy your cornflakes when you're thinking about monsters that use earwax to style their hair and have mouldy toes that fall off. On the other hand, these species are brilliant and would make a great book.

The Pop Stinger

The Pop Stinger is a two-headed monster; one head is a male and the other is a female. It shares one eye, positioned between the two heads.  It is generally a quiet monster, but the girl head gets them both into a lot of trouble. The boy head does the fighting, and the girl head does all the arguing. She is the one who usually causes him most problems.  Pop Stinger is purple (female) and yellow (male).

The male head waxes his hair, but instead of using hair wax he uses earwax. The girl uses green slime from her nose.

The monsters fingernails are full of green bogeys because it always picks its nose. It has razor sharp griffin claws, and a very threatening bee stinger just above his bottom.

When Pop Stinger gets nervous its eye turns bright red and it virtually eats anything smaller than him. He uses his powerful flame breath to kill its prey.

Pop Stinger has weaknesses such as: water, loud noises, anything taller that it and humans. It has a very odd bottom which, when it blows off a colourful rainbow comes out.

He is two meters and 3 cm tall and lives in a very old oak tree.

By Samuel
Age 10

I particularly like this idea because Samuel has really thought about what would happen if two different personalities shared the same body. Because we're looking for a monster species rather than just one monster, we could have a variety of two-headed monsters. Some monsters could have heads that agree, some could have heads that disagree... What would happen if a monster had one disgusting snotty head and the other was a prim and proper head that liked to be clean and disapproved of bogies?

It's also great because Samuel has thought of ways to make the monster really scary (e.g. its bee stinger tail and flame breath) but added enough funny features (e.g. is rainbow bottom burps) to keep the story light hearted.

The Gobble-Grizzler

The Gobble-Grizzler is the most ugly and repulsive creature ever to walk the planet, but on the inside they are softies because they are ugly they are frightened by their own reflections. They have appalling eyesight.

Gobble-Grizzlers love climbing mountains, but they normally lose their arms at a young age so they scale the mountains holding on with their teeth! If you think that's weird then listen to this: They have so much belly button fluff that to pass the time, they make sculptures from it! They put these in their mud huts.

They are extremely small and if you went searching, you would not see them. The Gobble-Grizzlers wear green farmer outfits with shiny gold buttons that are shined with ear wax. Gobble-Grizzlers have oddly shaped, round feet usually with only one or two mouldy toes ready to fall off! Luckily they have walking sticks handed down the family to help them along their way.

The most alarming thing about them is the humongous warts bulging out their face crammed within wrinkles. They also only have one eye, although nobody knows why. Finally they have ridiculous spiked up hair but that's not the problem – its spiked up with snot!

By Isabelle

Isabelle's idea is funny because it has a surprising element - the Gobble-Grizzlers look frightening but they are easily scared. I also like the idea of arms and mouldy toes that drop off. This could be useful for story-telling.

"Do you know where the Gobble-Grizzler went?"
"No idea."
"Wait! Here's one of its fingers. It must have gone this way."

Next week, we will decide which monster species to include in our book. But remember, you can use your ideas to inspire your own stories.

I've realised that 150 words is too short for you to be able to say everything you want to say in a description. So next week, when we design our heroes, I'll extend the word limit to 200 words.