There's a Nightmare in My Closet Book

Reading this seems to spark a memory. I think I read this as a child, not sure. It looks familiar. I also think others have used this concept before too - James Howe has a story similar. This is a wonderful book about facing one's fear.

A boy knows there is a monster in the closest so one night he waits for the monster. He has his cork gun and he turns off the lights. Sure enough a monster, huge and ugly comes out of the closet. He threatens the monsters and then shots him and the monster begins to cry. The boy then takes care of him and tucks him in his bed. He thinks there is probably another monster in his closet, but there is no more room in his bed for another one.

I love this story. It is fantastic. I was a kid ruled by my fears and I wouldn't have had the guts to do this. ET, my favorite movie still, scared the crap out of me and I couldn't understand how Elliot stayed outside on his own looking for something. It's nice to see a brave kid and what they would do.

This was my nephew's kind of book. He loved this thing. He loved the big scared looking monster. He loved that it ended up in the boys bed. He thought this was the best book we have read in a while. He gave this 5 stars. He told me that he knows there aren't monsters in his closet now. At one time he would have thought there were, but now he knows not. He wondered if this monster was part of the workers at Monsters Inc. He loves that movie.