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A monster play-along picture book!
By Anna Brooke
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A hideous monster needs your help to reverse the spell so he can return to his gorgeous self! Will you play along and help? Excuse me? You – yes, you! A naughty fairy has turned me into this hideous monster, and I need YOUR help to... Read More
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A hideous monster needs your help to reverse the spell so he can return to his gorgeous self! Will you play along and help?

Excuse me? You – yes, you! A naughty fairy has turned me into this hideous monster, and I need YOUR help to cure me!

Help the monster reverse the spell by shouting SAUSAGES! ten times, picking his nose (and wiping it on a grown-up), and, well, you don’t want to know what happens when you press his nose. Do everything right, and he’ll return to his true form and be gorgeous again... or so he thinks.

An interactive, play-along story guaranteed to make you giggle!

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781839136412

Publisher: Andersen Press Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 28 August 2025

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Andersen Press Ltd

Contributors:

  • Illustrated by Adam Ming

Audience: Children

DIMENSIONS

Width: 250.0mm

Height: 250.0mm

Weight: 300g

Pages: 32

Collections

Anna Brooke Children's Books Children's Fiction Children's Picture Books Children’s, Teenage and Educational

About the Author

Anna Brooke (Author) Anna Brooke has been a Paris-based travel journalist for seventeen years, writing for the Sunday Times Travel magazine and The Times, and has also authored seven guidebooks on France for Frommer’s. Her debut novel was a SCBWI Undiscovered Voices winner and longlisted for the Bath Children’s Novel Award. When not writing, she has been an actress, a cabaret singer and an electro-pop artist, performing on stage and composing songs for films and commercials. Raised in Birmingham and Yorkshire, she now lives in Paris with her French-Canadian husband and son. Adam Ming (Illustrator) Adam Ming is a Malaysian illustrator based in Kuala Lumpur. Straight out of art school Adam was illustrating a monthly column in ‘Going Places Magazine’ (Berita Publishing). From 2010-2020 Adam worked as a Creative Director on a number of apps, most notably Zapzapmath where he created 160 maths games for kids from K through 6. In 2021 with the birth of his daughter, Zelda, Adam moved back into creating witty and energetic illustrations with a comic sensibility for picture books. And he believes EVERYONE should keep a daily sketchbook!

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