Book description
The dark, captivating story of one remarkable young woman. And her monster.
Creative genius...? Inventor of science fiction...? Pregnant teenage runaway...? Who was the real Mary Shelley?
Mary's Monster is the compelling and beautifully illustrated story of Frankenstein's author Mary Shelley - the original rebel girl and an inspiration for…
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1 author picked Mary's Monster as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Holy moly, what a beautiful book. Take a look at Lita Judge’s social media just to absorb her varied and stunning artwork. Then pick up this title about a teenage Mary Shelley and dive in. The novel is written in free verse, with over three hundred black-and-white watercolor illustrations, the kind of thing I sometimes have to force myself to stop and absorb. But with these, I happily took my time, enjoying the art as a full part of the storytelling, which is spare, beautiful, and begging to be gobbled up.
From Chris' list on you’d never think were so compulsively readable, but are.
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