Puffin (3+)
9780241684450 (Paperback)
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This monstrously memorable take on a bedtime story features a host of endearing creatures and manages to be cute whilst also subverting assumptions around who gets a bedtime story. There’s a strong relationship between the text and the illustrations with high-energy, wobbly line work. The creatures have a textural quality which helps bring them to life from the page and there are fun details relating to each monster species giving lots to discover.
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Huw Aaron is a Welsh cartoonist, author and illustrator. After a short and fairly hopeless career in finance, Huw found a niche as a magazine cartoonist, producing joke cartoons for, among others, Private Eye, Prospect and The Spectator. Huw then started making comics and illustrating children’s books in his native Welsh. Since 2013, he has written or illustrated over 60 Welsh language books, and has won numerous awards including the 2023 Tir na n-Og and Welsh Children’s Book of the Year prizes. He was also founding editor of the comic Mellten, and presented the weekly art programme Cer i Greu on S4C.Huw also has a middle grade graphic novel publishing with Penguin Random House in August 2025. Huw’s harshest critics – and his best friends – are his wife Luned and their two daughters.