Marilyn's Monster

Marilyn's Monster
ISBN: 9780763693015
Publication Date: 1 June 2017

The best-selling author of Library Lion pairs with award-winning illustrator Matt Phelan to create a picture book gem with an unexpected twist.

Some of the kids in Marilyns class have monsters. Marilyn doesnt have hers yet, but she cant just go out and look for one. Your monster has to find you. Thats just the way it works. Marilyn tries to be patient and the kind of girl no monster can resist, but her monster doesnt come. Could she go out and search for him herself Even if thats not the way it works

From favorite picture-book creators Michelle Knudsen and Matt Phelan comes a story about one little girl and the perfect monster she knows is out there . . . and what happens when she decides shes waited long enough.

About the Author

Michelle Knudson came to writing after working as a children's book editor and has so far written twenty-eight books. Aside from writing, Michelle is a community theatre actress, perennial allergy sufferer and cat owner, among other things. She has always loved to write and has been writing as long as she can remember. In addition to writing books for young people she also likes to write fiction and non-fiction for adults and science-fiction and now works as a freelance editor and lives in Brooklyn, New York. Michelle's books for Walker include "Library Lion", about a very helpful lion in a library.

About the Illustrator

Matt Phelan is the author-illustrator of the highly acclaimed graphic novel The Storm in the Barn, winner of a Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction; Around the World, a Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards nominee; and Bluffton. He lives in Philadelphia.