Monster School

Description

A charismatic book of poems that empathetically casts various monsters as recognisable child characters.

Kate Coombs is an award-winning author of original fairy tales, poems, and middle grade fantasy novels. She is also the author of Chronicle's critically acclaimed Water Sings Blue. Coombs has worked as a K-12 and college teacher, and is currently an education editor for a small publisher. She also blogs about children's books at Book Aunt. To learn more about Kate, visit her website at http://www.katecoombs.com/index.html. Growing up in southern Alabama, Lee Gatlin's favorite things to draw were monsters, and they still are. Lee makes monsters and art in Athens, Georgia, where he lives with his wife, son, and two cats, who are all very tolerant of his occasional banjo racket.

"Katie Coombs imaginative verses employ a variety of forms that will send tingles down the spines of primary age readers while Lee Gatlin's creepy illustrations home in on the grim and gruesome with plenty of details of the shivery kind." -- Red Reading Hub "Accompanied by macabre illustrations and plenty of gruesome humour, these spooky rhymes are great fun to read aloud to little monsters, particularly at Halloween." -- BookTrust "This collection is beautifully and expressively illustrated, each page full of visual imagery waiting for the young reader to discover with delight. On the whole, it is a well-designed book which, I'm sure, children will love to own and treasure. An adult reading with a child will enjoy its referential nuances of mythology, folklore and childhood memories. A must-have children's book." -- Carousel