"...Everyone in the town was scared of Morris because he was different; After all, how many monsters can you say you know—especially monsters that eat dishes? ...Plates were Morris’s favourite. After that, he preferred teacups (without the saucers), and soup tureens. And he would always have serving dishes for dessert! Gravy boats were his least favourite. He said they tasted like broccoli, and avoided them whenever possible. ...Morris was very lonely. Nobody ever visited him. Not even at Halloween or Christmas. The Easter Bunny even passed him by. And the Tooth Fairy refused to visit his house because she thought it was indecent for him to be dining on fine bone china. “The nerve,” she said, the one and only time she came to collect Morris’s first lost baby tooth. She walked away in a huff, never to return again..."