Heyho, Guest blogger Laura here once more to share some monsterlicious news. For those of you who like monsters, movies and comics (and let’s face it, who doesn’t?) this is the stuff for you! You may recall my rather swift last post which mentioned my mental busyness on ‘super fun top secret project’ ???? No? [...]
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Is it a monster? Is it a tree?.. well.. yes it’s both actually!
Guest blogger Laura here! About to share the joy of yet another brilliant MONSTER story. But this is not your average big, hairy, claws, jaws, stomp stomp, yum yum, bones for my bread etc etc. Oh no, it’s far greater than that. A MONSTER CALLS by (pretty darn good author) Patrick Ness is the book [...]
Haunted Hotels!
Last month I was let out of the dank, miserable, armpit-scented caves to tour around the country promoting Furnace 5. It was brilliant to be able to breathe air that hadn’t been filtered through Barfdribble Undergunk’s digestive system, and to stretch my legs after so long cowering in the corner of my cell. But on [...]
Monsters, Monsters Everywhere!
Niamh Sharkey picks her top 5 Monster Picture Books for Library Mice Blog.
Wibble before WARBURG
Dell identifies the image below as “The Antichrist riding Leviathan, a Flemish 16th-century miniature from a manuscript of Lambert de Saint-Omer’s Liber floridus (c.1448).” As we poor trapped authors know all too well this picture was, like Nesbit’s, drawn from life. However, contrary to first appearances it does not contain two creatures, but one: the [...]
Tremble before NESBIT
OK, let’s start with this guy: Dell identifies him as a ‘demon from The Temptation of Christ,’ as portrayed in a late fifteenth century human manuscript illumination. Looks harmless enough, doesn’t he? Even – you might think – friendly. But that, dear reader, is precisely the problem. Nesbit (as we know him) is one of [...]
The Truth Is Coming
Look what I got for Christmas… To anyone else, Monsters by Christopher Dell (published by Thames and Hudson) is a gorgeous, glossy, gleeful romp through some of the finest monster art that humanity has ever produced, compiled from a wonderful variety of cultures and periods of history. To myself and my fellow members of the [...]
A Monstrous Merry Christmas!
We’re in the middle of preparing Christmas dinner at the moment, and it’s my turn to stuff the Garglesnark this year so I don’t have much time. I’d love to write a new festive ditty to celebrate the Christmas season, but Gleeg will probably inhale me alive if I don’t get back to the kitchen [...]
Broccoli Woman is Smirking
What fresh, amusing Hell has she dreamed up for us now in the lightless green depths of her vegetable mind? We are doomed, I tell you. Doomed.
Monster On My Trail
Monster have been keeping a close eye on me in the last week while I travelled about. I skipped over to Kerry for some events in the Irish Children’s Book Festival, I hopped back to London for Haydon School’s Book Day and tonight I’ll be jumping (on a train) to get to Gloucestershire, where two [...]
