A Monster Calls, By Patrick Ness

 

Arifa Akbar
Thursday 20 September 2012 15:17 BST
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Ness had not met the late author, Siobhan Dowd, who died of breast cancer, when he decided to write a book loosely based around her.

The exceptional story that followed knits together a fabular tale of dreams, nightmares and monsters, with serious illness and how a young mind deal with death. It is no surprise that it won five national prizes and has been read by so many.

This is children's writing at its best: it appeals to the child in all of us, yet it asks profound questions and takes us to emotional depths. A very grown-up children's book.

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