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A Monster Calls: Inspired by an Idea from Siobhan Dowd
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A Monster Calls: Inspired by an Idea from Siobhan Dowd Paperback - 2016

by Patrick Ness

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This seller has earned a 4.34 of 5 Stars rating from internet customers.
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Readers overwhelmingly praised A Monster Calls as a spare, emotionally exact portrait of anticipatory grief. They highlighted the clean, accessible prose, brisk pacing, and evocative illustrations, and found the monster’s fable-like tales a potent way to explore moral ambiguity and the necessity of speaking difficult truths. Many said it resonates across ages and even has therapeutic value, with several finishing it in one sitting and describing a lingering impact. Dissenters found it unrelentingly bleak, occasionally contrived or juvenile, and took issue with some of the parables’ ethics, but most regarded it as a singular, affecting work.

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Patrick Ness's #1 New York Times bestseller in a movie tie-in version with a striking cover.

The monster in Conor's backyard is not the one he's been expecting -- the one from the nightmare he's had every night since his mother started her treatments. This monster is ancient. And wild. And it wants something from Conor. It wants the truth. From the final idea of award-winning author Siobhan Dowd--whose premature death from cancer prevented her from writing it herself--Patrick Ness has spun a haunting and darkly funny novel of mischief, loss, and monsters both real and imagined. This paperback movie tie-in edition includes a book group discussion guide.

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  • Title A Monster Calls: Inspired by an Idea from Siobhan Dowd
  • Author Patrick Ness
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Pages 240
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Candlewick Press (MA)
  • Publication date 2016
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780763692155 / 0763692158
  • Weight 0.41 lbs (0.19 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.88 x 5.13 x 0.62 in (20.02 x 13.03 x 1.57 cm)
  • Age range 12 to UP years
  • Grade levels 7 - UP
  • Reading level 730
  • Category Young Adult Fiction
  • Library of Congress subjects England, Mothers and sons
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

Patrick Ness is the author of A Monster Calls, More Than This, The Rest of Us Just Live Here, and the critically acclaimed and best-selling Chaos Walking trilogy. He has twice been awarded the prestigious Carnegie Medal and has received numerous other awards, including a Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, a Book Trust Teenage Prize, and a Costa Children's Book Award. Born in Virginia, he lives in London.

Siobhan Dowd spent twenty years as a human rights campaigner for PEN and Amnesty International before her first novel, A SWIFT PURE CRY, was published in 2006. She won the Carnegie Medal posthumously in 2009 after her death at the age of forty-seven.

Jim Kay studied illustration and worked in the archives of the Tate Gallery and the Kew Royal Botanic Gardens, two experiences that heavily influence his work. His images for A MONSTER CALLS use everything from beetles to breadboards to create interesting marks and textures. Jim Kay lives in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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