If you loved how the die-cut pages in Go Away, Big Green Monster! make yellow eyes, a long bluish-green nose, and sharp white teeth appear—then vanish when you command, "Go away!"—you'll adore Press Here. Every tap, shake, and tilt you do changes the dots on the next page, turning reading into a playful game the same way your voice "banishes" the Big Green Monster.

The chant-like lines in Go Away, Big Green Monster! (naming the eyes, nose, and teeth and then telling each to "go away") make it irresistible to echo. Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? uses the same kind of simple, rhythmic pattern so you and your listener can join in from the first read: "Brown Bear, Brown Bear, what do you see?" It's the same delightful call-and-response energy.

In Go Away, Big Green Monster!, a child uses words to shrink a scary face until it’s gone. In There’s a Nightmare in My Closet, a child bravely opens the closet, confronts the "nightmare," and ends up comforting it when it cries. Like telling the Big Green Monster to scram, this turns fear into control—and even compassion—right at bedtime.

If you appreciated how Go Away, Big Green Monster! keeps everything close—just you, the book, and a face that you can “make” and “unmake”—Goodnight Moon offers that same intimate calm. In the great green room, the quiet old lady whispering “hush” and the ritual of saying goodnight to the comb, the brush, and the bowl full of mush create a soothing, close-to-home wind-down.

If commanding, "Go away, Big Green Monster!" made you grin, you’ll love Grover pleading with you not to turn the page in The Monster at the End of This Book. He ties knots and builds a brick wall to stop you—and the punchline reveals the “monster” was nothing to fear. It delivers the same giggly, page-turning fun of outwitting a monster with your words.