Mary's Monster : Love, Madness, and How Mary Shelley Created Frankenstein (Hardcover)

from JLSlipak

A young adult biography of Frankenstein's profound young author, Mary Shelley, coinciding with the 200th anniversary of its publication, told through free verse and 300+ full-bleed illustrations. Mary Shelley first began penning Frankenstein as part of a dare to write a ghost story, but the seeds...

from LoriFox

What an amazing book! I love how the story of Mary Shelley and her creation of her Creature, eventually known as Frankenstein, is told through short, descriptive poem-like letters from Mary's journals. Upon reading them, the reader can see how the events of Mary's life were coalesced into Mary's ...

from m.belljackson

What an incredible, terrifying, sad, and oddly redemptive volume! The dark and compelling illustrations carry readers as deeply as the poetic story of love, life, hatred, art, and death.

from SumisBooks

I read this book twice in one sitting and by the time I was done tears were streaming down my face! Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley is one of the strongest women I have ever read about. And through it all she is still remembered and will be forever immortalized through her masterpiece. For all the hu...

from Crazymamie

This completely blew me away. It arrived today, and I sat down with it to get a feel for it, and I just read straight through it without stopping or getting up. It is stunning. It's the story of Mary Shelley and of how she came to write [Frankenstein], but it is told in poetry, and the illustrati...