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.
Alma
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I really liked the book 😴 tite disgusting blob
Alma
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Lara
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I really liked the story 😴 tite disgusting blob.
Lara
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Alisha
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I like the auther Huw Aaron.
Alisha
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Riley
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Alistair
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Filip
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Mehreen
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I think the pictures were imagery and kinda weird
Filip
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I liked this book because I like the pictures were cool 😎 and I liked the monsters 👿.
Alistair
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I really liked the book because the details on the sneaky ester eggs like the Lego figure. And I really liked the details on the pages and the monsters my favourite monster was the cyclops.
Riley
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I thought that it was absolutely amazing because I just love the illustrations of the book. The end pictures were cool and I also really liked how the green colour represented the character.
Mehreen
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I think sleep tight disgusting blob was good because I liked the start and the end of the book pictures.
Sai
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