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Monsters

Stéphane Servant author Sarah Ardizzone translator Nicolas Zouliamis illustrator

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Pushkin Press

Publishing:12th Mar '26

£14.99

This title is due to be published on 12th March, and will be despatched as soon as possible.

Monsters cover

It all starts when a travelling circus arrives in a small village... Everyone is intrigued and excited to see the show, which is said to feature a terrifying monster. That evening, Otto, the narrator, takes a seat in the tent. But when the curtains open, the reader gets a big surprise: the monster on the stage is actually a human child, while the audience is full of terrifying, grotesque monsters! Otto, whose face is finally revealed, is also a hairy monster. Little by little, Otto and the human child get to know each other, and change the way they both look at the world.

"Creepy, poetic and profound... a beautifully illustrated book about difference that hooks you like the best of ghost stories, before turning a mirror on its reader and challenging our preconceptions, our fears and our prejudice"
—Jason Cockcroft, author of We Were Wolves

ISBN: 9781782695547

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: unknown

112 pages