- Published: 16 June 2020
- ISBN: 9781681374284
- Imprint: NY Review Childrens
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 160
- RRP: $40.00
Meet Monster
The First Big Monster Book
- Published: 16 June 2020
- ISBN: 9781681374284
- Imprint: NY Review Childrens
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 160
- RRP: $40.00
"I suspect that, secretly, (Quentin Blake) probably does have a magic pencil...he defies the limits of the visual by evoking sound: saucepans crash, birds screech, flutes toot. His hairy monsters, weird animals, knowing children and baffled adults threaten to leap off the paper. Noses point, arms flap, legs twist at impossible angles...Movement, freedom, escape are of the essence. And in every case, the open line and feeling of improvisation allow readers space to let their own imagination work on how characters might look and behave." -Jenny Uglow, The Guardian
"Sometimes when we meet an old book friend, we're disappointed. The book we remembered was so much more magical, so much better-written. We look back at it with an adult's eyes and...it just doesn't measure up. Happily, that is not the case with the reprinting of Ellen Blance and Ann Cook's beloved Monster stories. Monster is every bit as purple and his adventures are every bit as delightfully logical, with the logic of a child's mind, just as I remember." -Jean Little Liberary: the Library and Reading Journal of Jennifer, Librarian