Peterborough NH author Lita Judge, a prolific children's book author and illustrator, has written and illustrated Mary's Monster: Love, Madness, and how Mary Shelley created Frankenstein and we thought it would make a great October read! This book for adults and young adults is written in verse and beautifully illustrated by the author. Pick up a copy of the book at the front desk and we hope you can join us on Wednesday October 16th at 1pm.
Pairing free verse with over three hundred pages of black-and-white
watercolor illustrations, Mary's Monster is a unique and stunning
biography of Mary Shelley, the pregnant teenage runaway who became one
of the greatest authors of all time. Legend is correct that Mary Shelley
began penning Frankenstein in answer to a dare to write a ghost story.
What most people don't know, however, is that the seeds of her novel had
been planted long before that night. By age nineteen, she had been
disowned by her family, was living in scandal with a married man, and
had lost her baby daughter just days after her birth. Mary poured her
grief, pain, and passion into the powerful book still revered two
hundred years later, and in Mary's Monster, author/illustrator Lita
Judge has poured her own passion into a gorgeous book that pays tribute
to the life of this incredible author.
