As I sit here on the couch next to my snoring pug, Emma, the tears are still coming. I just finished A Monster Calls and man, it was something. It is written by Patrick Ness and he writes a forward explaining that the story was inspired by an idea from Siobhan Dowd. I had never heard of Ness or Dowd, even though I learned that they are pretty big names and now that I have read this book, I will be reading everything ever written by them! Dowd had the idea for this book and had written down some stuff, but she died from breast cancer before she could write it. Ness took the idea and ran with it and created this incredible story of a young teen named Conor and his dying mum (yeah, off-putting Briticism, but once again, here's a book so good it didn't even make a difference) and a Monster who comes to visit with Conor.
The illustrations are in black and white, done by a guy named Jim Kay and they are incredible. The whole book is a soul-touching, powerful work of art. Pretty freaking amazing. Newbery? Probably not. Too good to be a Newbery.
So excellent!
I absolutely loved this book!!! (It made me cry too!)
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