A Monster Calls
Patrick Ness, 2011
A boy is visited by a monster who tells him stories—and demands the truth he cannot speak. A dark fable about grief, rage and what stories carry.
Patrick Ness
The idea came from Siobhan Dowd, who died of cancer before writing it; Patrick Ness finished it at her editor's request, with Jim Kay's illustrations.
Feels like grief, morality and dread.
The particular loneliness of being looked past, not looked at.
There was once an invisible man who had grown tired of being unseen. It was not that he was actually invisible. It was that people had become used to not seeing him.And if no one sees you, are you really there at all?" Books by Patrick Ness
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