When he wasn't working on his cute Clifford books, Norman Bridwell changed it up by tossing out a series of books about the witch next door and a trio of humor books about monsters that basically features the Universal Classic Monsters lineup.

This one is a satirical take on how-to books about pet care that posits everyone is adopting monsters the way they would kittens or puppies. There are way too many corny jokes about Frankenstein's monster, mummies, vampires, and werewolves, and some that occasionally go to darker places, referencing blood sucking and corpse dissection.

I might have enjoyed this as a kid, but as an adult I was bored. ( )