Resumo

There are those who can imagine that the unusual brought and built in various audiovisual productions, containing monsters, including in animations for children and young people, are works that scare, do not add something, but as soon as they insert fear and/ or make consumption excessive, the well-known marathon, in innocuous action. Therefore, this article aims to show how such works, when read, contextualized and experienced in a qualitative way, can contribute to the cognitive development of children and youth as rational and creative thinking. The predominantly used approach is bibliographical and field, with some examples found in the school context produced by children who consume expressively the unusual found in their terrors and oddities coming from the monsters in their favorite works.