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“A MAGNIFICENTLY HILARIOUS MASTERPIECE OF MONSTER PROPORTIONS. I HOWLED WITH LAUGHTER!”, JENNY PEARSON, THE SUPER MIRACULOUS JOURNEY OF FREDDIE YATES
A monstrously funny new adventure series. Readers of 8+ and fans of Mega Monster and Shrek will adore the first in the brand new fantasy series from Irish debut author, Ian Mark
Every hero has to start somewhere . . .
Monster Hunting isn’t as easy as it looks. And Jack should know. Because an ogre has just appeared in his garden and tried to EAT HIS AUNT. (She was the winner of the World’s Worst Aunt competition, but that’s Not The Point).
After (sort of accidentally) defeating the ogre, Jack finds himself apprenticed to a grumpy, 200-year-old monster hunter called Stoop and heading off to Cornwall, where more ogres are causing havoc.
All he has are his wits, his catapult and a magical – sometimes unreliable – book called Monster Hunting for Beginners.
Jack’s a bit worried he might not be the hero everyone’s waiting for. But then again, how many terrifying, bloodthirsty monsters can there really be?
(Answer: ABSOLUTELY LOADS. And a bear called Humbert).
A hilarious and accessible story, packed full of illustrations – that gives a twist to all your favourite fairytales and will change everything you thought you knew about monsters! Perfect for apprentice monster hunters aged 8 to 800.
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Editore : Farshore (9 giugno 2022)
Lingua : Inglese
Copertina flessibile : 304 pagine
ISBN-10 : 0755504364
ISBN-13 : 978-0755504367
Peso articolo : 1,05 Kilograms
Dimensioni : 12.9 x 2.3 x 19.8 cm
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Lectura fácil para niños, buen tamaño de letra.
Pre-ordered this book for my sons 8th birthday (conveniently also called Jack!) and he is really enjoying it! He’s currently about a quarter of the way in. It’s easy to read/follow, but with enough new and challenging words for him to be learning new stuff at the same time! A few pictures dotted throughout. And it’s funny… which he loves! A really great book (arguably aim more towards boys) that is super fun. I would definitely recommend it to anyone who has a child that likes stories of monsters, magic, dragons and adventure etc. I’ve just pre-ordered book 2, which is conveniently due just ahead of his next birthday!
A fantasy novel for younger readers. Ideal age would be eight and up. There is some dealing with grief in it.It runs for two hundred and ninety pages. It has short chapters which aren’t numbered. There are illustrations and the print is quite large, so it is a very easy read.It is one of those books that reads complete and self contained, but leaves the door open for more adventures at the end. And those will be forthcoming.Jack, who narrates the whole thing in the first person, is an ordinary boy who lives with his dad. Who has tried to make him ultra cautious and risk adverse since his mother died. Jack is not especially brave as a result. But when his dad vanishes, and a hitherto unknown aunt shows up, Jack finds monsters are real. He ends up as the apprentice of monster hunter Stoop, and wild adventure results.It has the occasional foot note as well. So you could, if you were lazy, call this Pratchettesque. But that’s a bit too easy to say because it does try to find it’s own tone, and in the end, it does succeed. It is light in tone and with humour, which is always solid rather than laugh out loud funny. It gets from the real world into a more fantastical one. And then it really gets going.What’s good about it is the plotting, as the way things come together in the last third shows it knew what it wanted to do all along, and makes you look at earlier moments again in a new light. And Jack’s character arc just unfolds nicely and at a natural pace, never hammering home any messages.I did like how it handled Ogres, getting some clever and funny writing out of them not being the sharpest tools in the box. All in all, it zips by nicely and does become a worthwhile reading experience. It is the kind of thing you could read as a bedtime story also. And there’s a fun quiz at the back which gets the tone of it’s humour right.A good little book, and on the basis of this, the next in the series should be worth a look.
I read this with my 5 year old and she absolutely adored it. Highly recommend
My Daughter loved this book