The Monster at the End of this Book by Jon Stone

Grover: Do you know that every time you turn another page, you not only get us closer to the MONSTER at the end of this book, but you make a terrible mess!

Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Due to Grover's attempts to hold pages together with rope, nails, and bricks.

Adaptation Expansion: New plot elements include an in-universe progress bar which Grover employs to delay the story's end, eventually going back to the dinosaur era.

Animated Adaptation: October 2020 saw the release of an animated version of this book.

Ain't Too Proud to Beg: On the penultimate page, Grover, at this point completely out of options, pleads with the reader not to turn to the ending.

At the start Grover is alone trying to stop the story like in the first book until Elmo comes in to help him out like in Another Monster at the End of This Book.

Adaptation Amalgamation: The HBO adaptation is based on the first and second books.

See We Are in a Book! (an entry in the Elephant & Piggie series) for another children's book with a similar narrative concept. It can be read here, and the sequel can be read here. On August 19, 2022, this was removed from HBO Max along with various other Sesame Workshop programming. In 2020, an animated special based on the book, The Monster at the End of This Story, aired on HBO Max on October 29, available to stream on PBS Kids from March 7, 2022. There, Grover again attempts to stop the reader from making it to the end of the book, while Elmo encourages the reader to continue reading. In 1996, a sequel was published, titled Another Monster at the End of This Book, in which Grover is joined by Elmo. It consists entirely of Grover pleading with the reader, more and more desperately, to stop reading the book - because he's read the title page and is afraid to meet the monster. The Monster at the End of this Book is a 1971 Sesame Street picture book written by Jon Stone and illustrated by Mike Smollin.

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The Monster at the End of this Book by Jon Stone