Jerry’s Window

Ten-year-old Jerry is convinced his parents don’t love him. He gets their attention by setting off stinkbombs, flooding his mum’s laundry, and causing mayhem on the bus. But when a windowappears beneath his mum’s washing line and the monsters beneath it start trying to kidnap Jerry, hechanges his ways. The monsters don’t have an appetite for good children. But Jerry can only foolthem for so long… Ten-year-old Jerry Ronden is a walking nightmare who can make grown men cry. He sets offfirecrackers in his parents’ bed, deploys stink bombs in his own house, and soaps the aisle of theschool bus. But his mischief making days are numbered. He discovers a window beneath his mum’swashing line. Eyes glitter behind the window, and a voice calls to Jerry. He doesn’t have to wonderlong who could be speaking to him. After a day full of his antics at school, the monsters climb out ofthe window and try to kidnap Jerry and drag him underground. Terrified, Jerry screams he will begood forever. The monsters run away, unable to stand being around a good child.Jerry now knows the monsters only come after children who behave like monsters themselves. Theykidnap misbehaving kids and pull them underground, locking them in cages and feeding them untilthey decide the little troublemakers are ready to be eaten. This doesn’t sound like a bright future toJerry, so he tries very hard to improve his behavior. Eventually, he just can’t do it anymore. In a relapse, he steals a lollipop. As the monsters drag a struggling Jerry to the window in the ground, heknows it’s all over – he doesn’t deserve to be saved, and his parents probably don’t love him anyway.But Mr and Mrs Ronden explode out of the family home, armed with an encyclopaedia and a rollingpin, ready to beat the monsters into submission. When Mrs Ronden smashes the window, themonsters can’t survive. They collapse into dust, and Jerry is saved. Jerry tells his parents he’s sorryfor his awful behavior, and they tell him they feel like they’ve been given a second chance too – achance to love Jerry better.