Publisher's Synopsis
The boy begins life in an unusual way. With a face too flat and arms too long and not an ear to speak of, his first interactions with the other children make him wonder whether he is a monster. However his understanding of the world and what it means to be a monster is turned upside down upon the discovery that everything that is anything is actually a monster.
Through a series of episodic tales, the boy struggles to find acceptance and to learn to walk the line between the world of monsters and the world of humans, sometimes neglecting the most important world inside himself.
Written in a style that one would expect if "The Graveyard Book," by Neil Gaiman, "The Little Prince," by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, and "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" by Douglas Adams were the single, collaborative "The Little Prince's Guide to the Graveyard," "Monster" is an episodic coming of age tale that reminds adults what it's like to be a child and shows children why adults are so cranky all the time.
