A Monster Calls

Author New Patrick

One night a monster appears in the window of thirteen-year-old Conor. But he is not the monster he has been waiting for - the nightmare he sees almost every night since he started: his mother healing. This monster is very different: it is a huge tree that walks. A wild, primitive tree that asks Conor for the most dangerous thing in the world: the truth.

In the UK he won - for the first time in history! - the two most important awards for children's books, the Carnegie Medal for Ness's text and the Greenaway Medal for Kay's pictures. In Germany he was awarded the Jugendliteraturpreis, the most important prize for teenage books. It has been translated into 38 countries.