When A Monster Is Born - Tapa dura

When a monster is born - almost anything can happen ...Young children will love discovering all the crazy things monsters get up to, brilliantly depicted in award-winning illustrator Nick Sharratt's distinctive style. His dynamic pictures perfectly complement this quirky story about a monster's adventure.

Sean Taylor is an award-winning author of books for young readers of many different ages. His picture books include 'Tickling Tigers' and 'When a Monster is Born' (which has been translated into 8 different languages). As well as writing, Sean has many years' experience visiting schools, where he works with poetry and storytelling to encourage young people to write themselves. He lives partly in England (where he was born) and partly in Brazil (where his wife is from).

Nick graduated from St Martin's School of Art in 1984 and has been working as an illustrator ever since. His work encompasses books for babies through to books for early
teens and he has produced around 150 books to date. He is perhaps best-known for his illustrations for the multi-million selling author Jacqueline Wilson, but as well as this, he writes his own picture books and collaborates with various reputed picture book writers, on books such as PANTS and EAT YOUR PEAS.Recent awards include the Children's Book Award, Sheffield Children's Book Award, The Stockport Schools Award, the Experian Big Three Award. He has also been nominated for the 2003 Kate Greenaway Prize.