How can Nick believe his mother's telling him there aren't any monsters when she forgets what his favorite flavor of ice cream is? Or when she makes him wear boots and it doesn't even rain?
Well, sometimes Mamas do make mistakes...but sometimes they don't.
Judith Viorst's appealing text combines with Kay Chorao's wickedly evocative drawings in this all-new edition of a favorite book.

Judith Viorst was born and brought up in New Jersey, graduated from Rutgers University, moved to Greenwich Village, and has lived in Washington, D.C., since 1960, when she married Milton Viorst, a political writer. They have three sons--Anthony and Nick (who are lawyers) and Alexander (who does community-development lending for a bank) and seven grandchildren--Miranda, Brandeis, Olivia, Nathaniel, Benjamin, Isaac, and Toby. Viorst writes in many different areas: science books, children's picture books, adult fiction and non-fiction, poetry for children and adults, and three musicals, which are still performed on stages around the country.

大人和孩子之間的差距，就是孩子更真實，而成人犯了錯，也不輕易承認自己錯了。孩子會質疑，也只能這樣去表達。最終高貴善良的孩子總是會原諒大人的種種，整本書的精華，就在最后那溫馨的一頁。