The novel was adapted into the 2016 movie of the same name. A Monster Calls is the only book to have won both Medals. Ness and Kay won the Carnegie Medal and the Greenaway Medal in 2012, the "year's best" children's literary awards by the British librarians (CILIP). Dowd was terminally ill with cancer herself when she started the story and died before she could write it. He is repeatedly visited in the middle of the night by a monster who tells stories. Set in present-day England, it features a boy who struggles to cope with the consequences of his mother's illness. 214 pp (first edition) 152 pp (pdf edition)Ī Monster Calls is a low fantasy novel written for young adults by Patrick Ness, from an original idea by Siobhan Dowd, illustrated by Jim Kay and published by Walker in 2011.
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