Since time immemorial, there has been a myth that when children don’t listen in the evening and don’t want to sleep, a monster will come and scare them. But is it really true? We don’t know yet… But little Peter already knows.
Peter is a little boy who is very alive. Even his mother is sometimes troubled by how restless he can be. But he is the happiest child in the world. And also very curious.
“Mommy, I don’t want to go to sleep yet,” Peter begged one evening when he had already been bathed, fed, and his mother was putting him to bed.
“You have to sleep, Peter, you need your strength for tomorrow,” his mother persuaded him.
“But I still have lots of energy. I could stay up until tomorrow,” said Peter, but his mother just shook her head in disagreement.
“I’ll read you a story, but then we’ll go to sleep,” she said, and Peter obediently lay down. He always liked it when his mother read to him before bed, so he wanted to be good.
“Which fairy tale would you like to hear?” she asked.
“The one about animals,” said Peter, and his mother began to read it to him.
Peter soon fell asleep while she was reading, but he woke up in the night when the moon was shining brightly. He felt like having some milk, but he didn’t want to get out of bed. It was dark at night, and Peter was afraid of the dark. He tossed and turned for a long time, and just as he was about to get up, he heard faint voices under the bed.
He was a little scared, but he peeked under the bed—and couldn’t believe his eyes. There were little creatures with colorful, thick fur and big eyes.
“Who are you? And why are you under my bed?” asked Peter. The little monster crawled out from under the bed.
“We are night monsters. We watch over all the children in the world. But when they are naughty, we come to scare them a little so that they will behave better,” explained the monster, and Peter was amazed.
“So you’re real? I thought you were only in fairy tales,” he said and lay back down in his bed.
In the morning, his mother took him to kindergarten, where he was looking forward to playing with his friends. But he kept thinking about the night’s events—was it real or just a strange dream?
But while he was playing with his toy cars, he heard another boy crying nearby:
“I didn’t want to sleep last night. And when I got out of bed, a blue monster appeared and yelled at me!”
As soon as Peter heard this, he was sure – monsters really do exist. And from that day on, he tried to be even more good.
