A Monster Calls
About “A Monster Calls”:
A Monster Calls is a Low fantasy novel written for young adults by Patrick Ness, adapted from an original idea by Siobhan Dowd, illustrated by Jim Kay and published by Walker Books in 2011. Set in present-day England, it features a boy who struggles to cope with the consequences of his mother's illness. He is repeatedly visited in the middle of the night by a monster who tells stories. Dowd was terminally ill with cancer when she came up with the idea for the story, and died before she could write it.
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