It began with a girl named Mary. She liked to daydream and imagine. And she grew up to write Frankenstein. The inspirational true story of the great writer Mary Shelley, brought to life for children in this stunning picture book by multi-award winning author Linda Bailey and with beautiful illustrations from Júlia Sardà. Mary loves stories, but the stories in her daydreams are far more thrilling than those in any book. After a troubled childhood, eighteen-year-old Mary runs away to Switzerland with the famous poet Percy Bysse Shelley, her step-sister in tow. One dark and stormy night at his house by the lake, they huddle around the fire, telling ghost stories. But Mary can imagine better than those! After learning about electricity that can make dead frogs twitch, she has a nightmare that triggers the birth of one of the greatest scary stories of all time: Frankenstein... A perfect read for the very youngest aspiring writers, and for fans of Neil Gaiman and Chris Riddell's The Sleeper and the Spindle. Praise for the illustrator: "Júlia Sardà's illustrations are dark, dream-like, detailed" THE TIMES
| ISBN: | 9781783446797 |
| Publication date: | 4th October 2018 |
| Author: | Linda Bailey |
| Illustrator: | Júlia Sardà |
| Publisher: | Andersen Press an imprint of Andersen Press Ltd |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 48 pages |
| Genres: |
Picture storybooks Children’s / Teenage general interest: Girls and women Children’s / Teenage fiction: Biographical fiction / autobiographical stories Children’s / Teenage general interest: Literature, books and writers |