I Need My Monster by Amanda Noll It is the story of a boy who at bedtime finds a note under the bed that says: I WENT FISHING, I WENT BACK IN A WEEK - GABE. He tries to sleep without his monster under the bed, but simply can not. He needs the awful breath, the wheezing breath, the scrapes of scary paws, and the gnawing, green slime to sleep. If the monster is not there, he'll want to go to the bathroom, watch TV, go to his parents' room, have a glass of water, want to do anything but stay in his bed and sleep. He needs the monster to keep him in bed in fear and fall asleep. Then he gets out of bed and decides to see if there is a surrogate monster until his return. Seconds later, a new monster fights, but with well-polished nails or pink bows