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Plus What I Did Last Week,
Featuring Felicita Sala and Júlia Sardà

h1 August 3rd, 2018 by jules


“Mary opens her eyes, frightened. She tries to forget what she imagined.
She tries to think up a ghost story instead. And then, with a sudden jolt of excitement, she understands. She had already found her ghost story! The monster coming to life. That is the story she will write. Finally, she has her idea. …”
— From Linda Bailey’s Mary Who Wrote Frankenstein,
illustrated by Júlia Sardà
(Click image to enlarge and read the full text)


 


“She trembled as she imagined a hand — huge, gray, and twisted —
appearing through the bed curtains. She saw the curtains part.
The creature stared down at her with bulging yellow eyes.
What did it want from her?!”
— From Lynn Fulton’s She Made a Monster,
illustrated by Felicita Sala
(Click image to enlarge)


 

Over at Kirkus today, I write about Laura Vaccaro Seeger’s newest picture book, Blue.

That is here.

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Last week, I wrote here about Linda Bailey’s Mary Who Wrote Frankenstein, illustrated by Júlia Sardà (Tundra, August 2018), as well as Lynn Fulton’s She Made a Monster: How Mary Shelley Created Frankenstein, illustrated by Felicita Sala (Knopf, September 2018). Today I’m following up with art from each book.

Enjoy!



 

From She Made a Monster:


 


” … [F]or now, she only wanted to write a ghost story.”
(Click image to enlarge and read the full text)


 


“A flash of light illuminated the room, and Mary jumped as her reflection peered back at her from the mirror, pale and strange, like something dead restored to life. …”
(Click image to enlarge and read the full text)


 



 

From Mary Who Wrote Frankenstein:


 



 



 


” … For the rest of her life, Mary will remember this night.
And she will never forget that poem.”
(Click image to enlarge and read the full text)


 


” … She runs away with a brilliant young poet. Her stepsister, Claire, goes along too.”
(Click image to enlarge and read the full text;
note that the text placement varies from the final book)


 


“But summer brings mysterious storms. Dark clouds rumble and churn. …”
(Click image to enlarge and read the full text)


 



 

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MARY WHO WROTE FRANKENSTEIN. Text copyright © 2018 by Linda Bailey. Illustrations copyright © 2018 by Júlia Sardà and used by permission of the publisher, Tundra, New York.

SHE MADE A MONSTER: HOW MARY SHELLEY CREATED FRANKENSTEIN. Text copyright © 2018 by Lynn Fulton. Illustrations copyright © 2018 by Felicita Sala and used by permission of the publisher, Alfred A. Knopf, New York.





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