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Here be monsters

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English
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Fantasy
Science Fiction
Children
Adventure
Magic
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Published 2006 Atheneum Books for Young Readers 8 views
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0689870477, 9780689870477
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Alan Snow

Alan Snow (born 1959 in Kent, England) is an English author and illustrator of children's literature. He is best known for his best selling novel Here Be Monsters! (2005), which was adapted into a stop-animation film by Laika under the name The Boxtrolls, released in 2014. Snow grew up in the county of Wiltshire and went on to study fashion design and illustration at the Salisbury College of Art. After college he worked in variety of different jobs before becoming primarily an author and illustrator of children's books.

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Allouette's groan penetrated Gregory's trance in an instant, and the images of his mental constructs fell to shards...

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While gathering food to bring to his grandfather, young Arthur becomes trapped in the city of Ratbridge, where he and some new friends try to stop a plot to shrink the monsters of Arthur's home, the Underworld, for a nefarious purpose.

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