I Need My Monster by Amanda Noll
The monster that lives under Ethan’s bed has gone fishing and Ethan’s just not sure if he will be able to go to sleep without his monster. A substitute monster shows up, but he doesn’t have long teeth or scratchy claws, which is what Ethan is looking for, so that monster leaves. The next monster has long claws, but there is nail polish on them which is not AT ALL what Ethan was hoping for. The next monster turns out to be a girl monster which isn’t going to work out-she has a bow on her tail-that’s not scary! Ethan gets a few more substitute monsters, but they are just not scary enough. Luckily, it turns out that Ethan’s monster doesn’t really like fishing that much and he returns much earlier than expected.