The Monster Who Ate Darkness
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Best-selling Taiwanese illustrator Jimmy Liao teams up with renowned British author Joyce Dunbar to present a fantastical, heartwarming tale. Why can’t Jo-Jo go to sleep? He doesn’’t like the darkness under the bed – a monster might be hiding there. And one is! It’s a tiny speck of a monster with a huge appetite for darkness, gobbling it up under the bed, in every nook and cranny, and in the wide world outside, growing bigger with every bite. Soon there is no darkness left anywhere, from the earth to the stars. All the world is light, but the monster still has an empty feeling inside. Only a sleepless boy will help him be fulfilled at last.
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Joyce Dunbar has published more than eighty books, including Shoe Baby and Pat-a-Cake Baby, both illustrated by her daughter, Polly Dunbar. She lives in Norwich, England.
When Jimmy Liao was little he wanted to be several things: a painter, a magician, or a train driver. Eventually he became a painter who tries to create magic with pictures. (And who sometimes still dreams of being a train driver.) He is the author and illustrator of over thirty-two books that have been translated into nine languages worldwide. In a starred review, Publishers Weekly called his first book with Little, Brown, The Sound of Colors, “exuberant.” He lives in Taipei, Taiwan with his wife and daughter.
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Book Details
- ISBN
- 9780763638597
- Publication Date
- October 14, 2008
- Publisher
- Candlewick
- Original Publication Date
- January 1, 2008
- Page Count
- 56
- Reading Age
- 3 - 7 years
- Lib. of Congress (LCCN)
- 2008928826
- WorldCat Number (OCLC)
- 192080682
- Est. Lexile® Level
- ~491L
- Est. Fountas & Pinnell Level
- ~M
- ATOS® Book Level
- 3.3
- Accelerated Reader® Points
- 0.5
- Accelerated Reader Quiz
- 126181
- Accelerated Reader Interest Level
- LG
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