A Monster Calls Resources
Websites
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If you loved A Monster Calls, you'll definitely want to read author Patrick Ness' diary.
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Check out Jim Kay's illustrations and preliminary sketches for A Monster Calls, including a print he made from a breadboard.
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Just in case you didn't already think she was cool enough for thinking up A Monster Calls, she also started a trust to provide books to disadvantaged kids in the U.K.
Articles and Interviews
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Check out this beautiful summary of the book and tribute to Siobhan Dowd by Jessica Bruder, who was once her intern.
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In which an oncologist praises A Monster Calls.
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How exactly did A Monster Calls come about? The author and illustrator explain it all for you, and it's a doozy of a story.
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Patrick Ness and Jim Kay took home a couple of mega-medals for A Monster Calls, winning both the Carnegie and Greenaway Medals, Britain's highest honors for children's lit and illustration. If you need them, they'll be over here being awesome.
Video
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Patrick Ness chills with an interviewer at the 2012 London Book Fair.
Audio
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… and gives an interview to Candlewick Media, the book's U.K. publisher. Enjoy the accents!
Images
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St. Michael's Church in Conway County, North Wales, has a big, scary yew tree in its graveyard. It's okay if it comes to life as long as it doesn't eat brains.
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We love this Jim Kay drawing of the yew tree monster arriving at Conor's house for the first time. But seriously: how was this kid not terrified?