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

by Patrick Ness (Author), Jim Kay (Illustrator)

A New York Times bestseller!

Patrick Ness's Carnegie Medal-winning masterwork is poised to attract a discerning crossover audience.

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. Something terrible and dangerous. 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.

Author Biography

Patrick Ness is the New York Times best-selling author of A Monster Calls (inspired by an idea from Siobhan Dowd), which won both the Carnegie Medal and the Kate Greenaway Medal, was a Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist, and was made into a major motion picture for which he wrote the screenplay. He is also the author of the critically acclaimed and best-selling Chaos Walking trilogy, More Than This, Release, Different for Boys, The Rest of Us Just Live Here, and Burn. His many accolades include two Carnegie Medals, an Olivier Award, the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, the Book Trust Teenage Prize, and the Costa Children's Book Award. Patrick Ness lives in Los Angeles.

Jim Kay is the illustrator of A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness, for which he won the prestigious Kate Greenaway Medal; Bugs by George McGavin; and The Great War. He studied illustration and worked in the archives of the Tate gallery and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, two experiences that heavily influence his work. He lives in Edinburgh, Scotland.