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Picture storybooksDecember 2017The Complete Guide to Being a Monster
by Chetram, Astika / Ricciardi, Danica
Every little monster faces challenges while growing up. Wouldn't it be great to have someone teach you how to deal with these challenges? The Complete Guide to Being a Monster is a fantastic read on how to be the best monster you can possibly be... have you practiced your roar? Have you embraced the dark for its glow worms and twinkling stars? Have you built a lair yet? Follow three adorable little monsters, Ike, Spike and Mia, as they discover what it means to be a monster, and learn what it means to enjoy being you.
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Literature & Literary StudiesAugust 2018Adapting Frankenstein
The monster's eternal lives in popular culture
by Dennis R. Cutchins, Dennis R. Perry
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is one of the most popular novels in western literature. It has been adapted and re-assembled in countless forms, from Hammer Horror films to young-adult books and bandes dessinées. Beginning with the idea of the 'Frankenstein Complex', this edited collection provides a series of creative readings that explore the elaborate intertextual networks that make up the novel's remarkable afterlife. It broadens the scope of research on Frankenstein while deepening our understanding of a text that, 200 years after its original publication, continues to intrigue and terrify us in new and unexpected ways.
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Literature & Literary StudiesMay 2024A book of monsters
Promethean horror in modern literature and culture
by David Ashford
This books traces the rise to prominence in the twentieth-century of a sub-genre of gothic fiction that is, emphatically, a horror of enlightenment rationality rather than gothic darkness, examining post-modern revisions of Modernist "Promethean" tropes in an eclectic range of gothic, fantasy and SF writing. Whether the subject be terror of London's churches in the psychogeographical fiction of Iain Sinclair and Alan Moore, the Orcs in the linguistic fantasies of J.R.R. Tolkien, King Kong, killer-computers, or demon-children in post-war British science-fiction, A Book of Monsters offers illuminating perspectives on the darker recesses of the post-modern imagination, setting out a compelling, and comprehensive, overview on our contemporary unconscious.
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January 2019Suche und finde! - Tiere
Wimmelbuch ab 2 Jahre
by Illustriert von Frankenstein-Börlin, Tina; Illustriert von Leiber, Lila L.
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Children's & YAThe Little Moody Monster (2). A Four-Legged Visitor
by Julia Boehme/ Franziska Harvey
Hurray! Moritz can look after Grandma’s dog Charly because she’s going on holiday. So at last Moritz has a pet of his own, even if it’s only for a few days. Milo, Moritz’s new friend, is also wild about Charly. There’s only one creature who is not at all pleased, and that’s the Moody Monster. Until Charly suddenly disappears…
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October 2012Tengo miedo
by Ivar Da Coll
In this new version of the classic Colombian children’s tale, Ivar keeps the storyline intact, while adding a reflection on the fears that haunt and pursue children’s dreams and are a true reflection of the current Colombian conflicts. The control of the palette and the supremacy of the drawings, turn this book into a masterpiece for all types of readers.
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August 2008Frankenstein oder Der moderne Prometheus
by Mary Shelley, Karl Bruno Leder, Gerd Leetz
Der Roman erzählt von einem künstlich geschaffenen, beseeltem Menschenwesen, das ob seiner Häßlichkeit von Liebe und Gemeinschaft ausgeschlossen bleibt. In seiner ursprünglich kindlich-schuldlosen Seele entsteht so das Böse, und haßerfüllt nimmt es Rache an der Menschheit.
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Comic strip fiction / graphic novels (Children's/YA)August 2018The Straw Giant and the Crow
by Bosworth-Smith, Jessica
The Straw Giant and The Crow by Jessica Bosworth Smith is a heartfelt and off-the-wall story about a mysterious relationship between a straw giant and a crow. There is a field afar that holds an incredible secret... a giant lives there who is made of straw. One winter, grumpy and miserable with his cold surroundings, the Straw Giant chases away all the other animals in his field. That is, until the Crow arrives and begins to leave him little gifts each morning. A sweet and subtle friendship emerges — but will the Crow be able to last the Winter Solstice? Will their friendship defy the cold clutches of winter and last out?
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Children's & YASeptember 2019Eu não tenho medo
by Niccolò Ammaniti
The hottest summer of the century. Four houses lost among the wheat fields. The big ones are locked in the house. Six children, on their bicycles, venture into the burning and abandoned countryside. In the middle of that sea of ears hides a frightening secret, a secret that will change forever the life of one of them, Michele, a 9-year-old boy. The story is set in the torrid summer of 1978, in the countryside of an unidentified southern Italy, but evoked with rare descriptive force. In this landscape dominated by the contrast between the blinding light of the sun and the darkness of the night, Ammaniti alternates, with wise narrative moments, comedy, the world of children's relationships, the language and the burlesque wisdom of children, their tenacity, the strength of friendship and the drama of betrayal. And at the same time he sketches an unforgettable display of adult characters. A novel of self-discovery through the most extreme risk and the need to face it, Io non ho paura becomes a poignant farewell to the age of play and amazement, to the magical energy that makes us fight monsters. And it insinuates itself under the skin of all of us, like a light stab in the chest.
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The ArtsJune 2017Terence Fisher
by Peter Hutchings
Terence Fisher is best known as the director who made most of the classic Hammer horrors - including The Curse of Frankenstein, Dracula and The Devil Rides Out. But there is more to Terence Fisher than Hammer horror. In a busy twenty-five-year career, he directed fifty films, not just horrors but also thrillers, comedies, melodramas and science-fiction. This book offers an appreciation of all of Fisher's films and also gives a sense of his place in British film history. Looking at Fisher's career as a whole not only underlines his importance as a film-maker but also casts a new, interesting light on the areas in which he worked - Gainsborough melodrama, the 1950s B film, 1960s science-fiction and, of course, Hammer, one of the most successful independent film companies in the history of British cinema.
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Children's & YABumbum The Brave Giant
by Watiek Ideo
Bumbum the Brave Giant loves to play with his friends, but his body is too big. It makes people around him always having a hard time. Bumbum now determined to make himself smaller so he can fit in, but it's so hard. Then one day, his village is drown in flood. What will Bumbum do?
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November 2023Envy
The secret feeling
by Bettina Schulte
Envy is a relationship drama. The other is the thorn in the flesh. The first murder in the Bible is when Cain killed Abel: out of envy. And today, influencers dazzle their followers with their enviable lives. Bettina Schulte's essay spans an arc from the gruelling agony of subjective envy to the question of its legitimate social role. And of course, it's also about jealousy as a form of envy ...
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April 2024Monster trinken keine Erdbeermilch
by Vincent Boudgourd, Marie-Hélène Versini, Vincent Boudgourd, Felicia Bomhoff
Monster sind wirklich merkwürdige Wesen. Und sie haben eigenartige Gewohnheiten: Sie gehen nie zum Friseur, tragen keine Schuhe, spielen nicht Klavier. Und auch leckere Erdbeermilch trinken sie nie. Doch warum tun sie all das nicht? Die erstaunliche Antwort darauf gibt dieses Buch – und zeigt dabei auch, warum man sich vor den komischen Monstern gar nicht gruseln muss. Mit knallbunten Bildern und witzigen Texten vertreibt dieses Buch die Angst vor Monstern im Nu – der ideale Begleiter zum Einschlafen. Unterstützt Kinder dabei, spielerisch Ängste zu überwinden Mit Humor Selbstvertrauen von Kindern stärken
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March 2019Monsters of Verity - Unser düsteres Duett
Dark Urban Fantasy
by Schwab, Victoria / Englisch Reiter, Bea
