The Albatross space liner is overrun by lizard-like monsters that can infect humans and turn them into their own kind. Retro sci-fi tactical turn-based strategy with an exciting storyline. She was the Waterstones Children's Laureate for 2013-2015.Buy I Am Not A Monster: First Contact as a Steam key at In 2008, she was then honoured with an OBE for her services to Children's Literature. In 2005, Malorie was honoured with the Eleanor Farjeon Award in recognition of her distinguished contribution to the world of children's books. Malorie has also written a number of titles for younger readers. Her work has appeared on screen, with Pig-Heart Boy, which was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal, being adapted into a BAFTA-award-winning TV serial.
Both Hacker and Thief! won the Young Telegraph/Gimme 5 Award - Malorie is the only author to have won this award twice - while Hacker also won the WH Smith Mind-Boggling Books Award in 1994. The novels in her Noughts & Crosses sequence have won several awards, including the Children's Book Award, and she has won many other awards for her books for the Random House list. Malorie Blackman is acknowledged as one of today's most imaginative and convincing writers for young readers. It’s also worth noting that Adeola has illustrated the character of Charlie as having the skin condition vitiligo, which is rarely (if ever) depicted in children’s books, and there’s a note at the beginning of the book signposting readers to The Vitiligo Society for more information.ĭownload free We're Going to Find the Monster resources from Twinkl This is a really lovely fun read, which also has a nice, reassuring family feel. The brave brother and sister set off on a journey of adventure over shimmering oceans, high mountains and past fierce tigers to discover the terrifying monster in his lair: or, as it turns out, their teenage brother Marcus in his bedroom.Ī lovely slightly fairy tale-inspired tale about a family with two younger siblings and a teenager getting ready for breakfast, We’re Going to Catch a Monster features the wonderful storytelling and word wizardry of former Children’s Laureate Malorie Blackman and the brilliant eye for family dynamics from prize-winning illustrator Dapo Adeola.įans of Adeola may remember the lovely relationship between the teen brother and the younger heroine Rocket in Look Up, which is recalled here in Marcus’ grumpiness that turns to a family tickling frenzy by the end.
They know that they have to find the grumpy, prickly monster, but where will they find him? Charlie and Eddie are playing in the garden one morning when Dad gives them a ten-minute warning for breakfast.
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