Abi's Dress-up Parade

It's the dress-up parade, but poor Abi forgot!

So a last-minute outfit is all that she's got …

Everyone's dressed up for a fancy-dress parade – except for Abi. She's embarrassed by her last-minute outfit. How can her friends help her find the courage to join in?

Welcome to the School of Monsters: the funniest, silliest and most accessible series for first readers, by Australian Children's Laureate Sally Rippin! Start by reading only the last word on every line and work your way up to reading the whole story. With tumbling rhymes and an infectious sense of humour, the weird and wonderful students at the School of Monsters are guaranteed to spark a love of reading!
 

• DR SEUSS MEETS SESAME STREET: The perfect series to engage and encourage emerging readers, with bouncing rhymes, simple vocabulary and a colourful cast of characters.
• BESTSELLING AND BELOVED DECODABLE SERIES: With over a million books in print and a dozen languages in translation, School of Monsters has fans all over the world and plenty of titles in the series for hungry new readers! 
• STAR AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR DUO: Australian Children's Laureate Sally Rippin and much-loved illustrator Chris Kennett have created an enticing monsters' universe together.
• BONUS CONTENT: Every book features a decodable word game based on the story, a guide to fostering early literacy, and a how-to-draw spread for the main character!

Readers will love other books in the School of Monsters series: 

• Snell's Show and Tell
• A Birthday Wish for Bee
• Super-fast Skelly
• Tish Learns to Swim 
• Luna Boo has Feelings Too
• Milly's Family Fun 
• and many more!