A naughty little boy, sent to bed without his supper, sails to the land of the wild things where he becomes their king.
Monsters
- Author:Sendak, MauriceSummary:
- Author:Dahl, RoaldSummary:
How do you outwit a twit? What happens when a magic finger turns the hunter into the hunted? Can Billy help the tiny minpins who live in the trees defeat the Gruncher once and for all? Find out in these three exciting tales of wild...
- Author:Sapkowski, AndrzejSummary:
Geralt is a witcher--guardian of the innocent and a defender against frightening creatures of myth and legend. His task is to protect Ciri, a child of prophecy who will have the power to change the world for good or for ill--but Ciri...
- Author:Wilson, JohnSummary:
Howard is a lonely, geeky tenth-grader dealing with a father who's had some kind of breakdown, a flaky, overprotective mother and frightening waking dreams. Then he meets Cate, a strange girl who convinces him that he is an Adept,...
- Author:Townsend, TracySummary:
A book that some would kill for. Black market courier Rowena Downshire is doing everything she can to stay off the streets and earn enough to pay her mother's way to freedom. But an urgent and unexpected delivery leads her face to face...
- Author:Rowe, BillSummary:
Is there really a monster at Twenty Mile Pond?
Bill McGill, a lawyer living in St. John’s, has been asking himself this same question for more than twenty years, since the day he saw—or thought he saw—something large and...
- Author:Slade, Arthur G.Summary:
The Loki Wolf Arthur G. Slade Red Cedar Nominee 2002-03 Resource Links' Year's Best 2000 The scare is the thing here. On the third night the worst nightmare - the very worst - invaded my dreams. Loping behind me was a gigantic...
- Author:Sinden, DavidSummary:
Beware the vampire's bite! Ulf the werewolf is training to become an official Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Beasts (RSPCB) agent. His mission takes him to the jungle in search of a legendary jungle vampire. But the evil...
- Author:Brautigan, RichardSummary:
Eastern Oregon, 1902. Magic Child, a fifteen-year-old Native American girl, wanders into a whorehouse looking for the right men to kill the monster that lives in the ice caves under the basement of Miss Hawkline's yellow house....
- Author:Buckley, MichaelSummary:
Orphans Sabrina and Daphne Grimm are sent to live with an eccentric grandmother that they have always believed to be dead.
- Author:D'Lacey, ChrisSummary:
Lucy lives in a house full of decorative dragons that her mother makes. When Lucy is convinced that there's a monster in her bedroom, her mother sprinkles a bit of magic into clay and creates Gruffen the Guard Dragon.
- Author:Ackroyd, PeterSummary:
As Victor Frankenstein begins conducting anatomical experiments to reanimate the dead, he at first uses corpses supplied by the coroner. But these specimens prove imperfect for Victor's purposes. Moving his makeshift laboratory to...
- Author:Stross, CharlesSummary:
A lowly computer geek working for a secret British intelligence agency gets promoted to field service after accidentally saving lives in a disaster. Now he's faced with saving the universe using only his smarts and a disembodied hand...
- Author:Knight, NicholasSummary:
Hunter Portman is a monster tracker. Sure, as a shapeshifter, most humans would consider him a monster, too, but he’s actually trying to protect us. Well, sort of. His bosses have an ulterior motive. They don’t want humankind finding...
- Author:Yolen, JaneSummary:
A fun-filled day at the monster playground features exuberant little monsters swinging, sliding, running three-legged races, and sharing monster-sicles.
- Author:Carson, AnneSummary:
A continuation of the author's Autobiography of red (1998), following the characters in later life, but in a different style and with changed names.
- Author:McKissack, PatSummary:
Home alone with a stomachache while the family works in the fields, a young girl faces up to the horrifying Boo Hag that her brother warned her about.
- Author:Slade, Arthur G.Summary:
A collection of profiles about monsters such as Dracula, Medusa and Sasquatch.
- Author:Harrell, RobSummary:
In a fantastical 1860s England, every quiet little township is terrorized by a ferocious monster--much to the townsfolk's delight! Each town's unique monster is a source of local pride, not to mention tourism. Each town, that is--except...
- Author:Cuyler, MargerySummary:
A monster sneaks into a boy's room and cleans up while the boy is asleep.