Monsters' Nonsense Books

The Grumpy Guest
The Wizard of Poob
The Grumpy Guest
The Grumpy Guest
The Wizard of Poob
picture • 24 Pages
The Grumpy Guest
Book #1

The Grumpy Guest

Written by Peter Bently & illustrated by Duncan Beedie
5 - 7
Reading age
24
Page count
Apr 19, 2018
Publication date
Hardcover
$14.95
$13.98

Summary

Welcome to Planet Pok – the land of Monsters’ Nonsense. Pem Pem’s bossy cousin has come to visit, but he’s not interested in the tour of Planet Pok. What will happen when Huff Huff discovers an underground tunnel? Step inside a world of monster fun and encourage children to sound out non-words, carefully selected at the right level to support phonic development. Monsters’ Nonsense is designed for children to practice decoding nonsense words within a fun and exciting story. The adult reads the main narrative whilst the child is encouraged to read the monsters’ language in speech bubbles and these ‘non-words’ help them practise their emerging phonics skills at a level that is right for them. Brought to life by award-winning author Peter Bently and Duncan Beedie’s comic book style, this fun series creates a valuable shared reading experience and will inspire any child to become a monster reader!

Monsters' Nonsense Series

Published from 2018 - 2018
2 books
picture • 24 Pages
The Grumpy Guest
Hardcover
$14.95$13.98
picture • 24 Pages
The Wizard of Poob
Hardcover
$14.95$13.98
YearTitlePages
2018The Grumpy Guest24
2018The Wizard of Poob24

The Creatives Behind the Books

    Author
    Peter Bently

    My dad was an army bandmaster and director of music. Having a dad in the army meant that we moved around a fair bit when I was a child, so I lived in Germany, Singapore and Hong Kong as well as places in England, including in Devon where I live now. I recently worked out that I went to ten different schools, or eleven if you count going to the same school twice (that was in Hong Kong). Imagine having that ‘first day at school’ feeling eleven times! But often there were other children whose parents were in the services too and who had also changed schools a lot, so I didn’t feel too weird. I have always enjoyed words but it took me quite a while to discover that I wanted to be a children’s writer. After university I worked for a short time as a journalist and then for a much longer time editing and sometimes writing books for grown ups. But I always liked writing funny stories and verses. When I was best man at my brother John’s wedding I even wrote my best man’s speech in rhyme. A few years later, my wife read that speech and said I should do more of that kind of thing. After we had our first child, Theo, and then (in 2001) moved from London to Devon, I started taking children’s writing seriously. I joined a creative writing group and in 2004 took a course run by the excellent Arvon Foundation. In 2005 I sent the text of A Lark in the Ark to fourteen publishers. Twelve of them said no thanks, but Egmont accepted it. I still have a copy of their cheque on my wall. (Bio via peterbently.com)

    Illustrator
    Duncan Beedie

    I am a freelance illustrator and children’s author based in Bristol, UK. I have been doodling and drawing since way back in the early 1980s, lying on my parents’ living room floor, grasping a felt tip in my clammy little fist, through to my current profession, grasping a Wacom stylus in my clammy little fist. So, not much has changed, although I no longer lie on the floor to draw. My debut picture book ‘The Bear Who Stared’ was shortlisted for the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize 2017, and my second book, ‘The Lumberjack’s Beard,’ was shortlisted for the World Illustration Awards in 2018. Other books include ‘The Last Chip’ and ‘Molly’s Moon Mission’ (due out in February 2019.)

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