Crestwood House Publishing y'all:
In 1977, Elementary Schools across the U.S. obtained a boxed set of 6 Crestwood House softcover books on Dracula, Frankenstein, Godzilla, King Kong, Mad Scientists, and The Wolf Man. This kit was called the "Monster Reading Center" and had a Teacher's Guide with audio cassettes to accompany each book.
From there, more books were released by Crestwood Publishing often having an orange binding. Many kids from this time period will remember hunkering down at their local libary staring at the various pictures of monsters only imagining how horrific the actual movies were (the actual movies of course could never match the imagined horrors of encountering these pictures evoked).
Brief Video Introduction:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/4qsXS18JAxgD/
Couple bloggers Around the net seem to have fond memories of the collection:
http://sickopsychotic.blogspot.com/2...rs-series.html
https://www.brandedinthe80s.com/6757...monster-series
Below Picture is of the Monster Reading Center that marked the debut of Crestwood Publishing's Monster series with it's initial 6 in softcover with cassettes note in the image as well below each volume with the teacher's guide as well.