Series
A Monster Calls
Patrick Ness, Adam Peck & Sally Cookson · 1 novel · 1 short story · 2011–2018
A Monster Calls follows a boy struggling with his mother's terminal illness, who is visited each night by a tree-like monster demanding an honest story from him in exchange for the unsettling tales it tells. Patrick Ness wrote the novel from an idea left unfinished by Siobhan Dowd, who died of cancer before she could write it herself, with illustrations by Jim Kay integral to the original edition. It was later adapted for the stage.
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- 2010s2
Shape
1 novel · 1 short story
3 authors
reads like:fantasygrief and lossbritish islescontemporaryemotionalmiddle grade
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