It’s okay.  Advertised on the back flap is another book entitled, “The Problem with Not Being Scared of Monsters,” and perhaps this book would be better as a companion to the other, but as a stand-alone story it leaves me a bit flat.  Most pages consist of one sentence describing some failure or another of monsters trying to make friends with kids who are cowering in fear or running away, until at the end they meet one boy who isn’t scared, so they have no problem.  I’m guessing I might like the other book better, as there is a distinctive twist on the usual expectation that most kids are scared of monsters, and as I said, as a companion this might work.  But since I don’t think most of us have any expectation that monsters are afraid of kids, this book lacks the same twist.  It’s not bad; it’s just not particularly compelling.