Monsters are coming
breakfast
school
Life writing
Three stories
maternal grandmother
A wild story
First story
The ending of the first story
A silent promise
conversation
maternal grandmother's house
Champ
Americans don't have much vacation time.
Second story
The ending of the second story
destruction
invisible person
Attention
Could that be possible?
A day without stories
I can't see you anymore
Third story
punishment
note
A hundred years
What good are you?
Fourth story
The ending of the fourth story
Life after death
Commonalities
truth

"A Monster Calls" opens in theaters on September 14th.
44 nominations and 34 awards in major film festival categories around the world
A Monster Calls, winner of both the Carnegie Medal and the Kate Greenaway Medal
Finally meeting domestic readers through film

This fall, the film 'A Monster Calls', which will comfort the hearts of audiences, is the film adaptation of the novel 'A Monster Calls', the first novel in the world to win both the Carnegie Medal selected by the British Library Association and the Kate Greenaway Medal, which is awarded to the most outstanding picture book in the UK.



The fateful and ambitious work of two Carnegie Medal-winning authors!

To the boy with no one to lean on,
One day, a monster came and demanded the truth!

“I’ll tell you three stories!
Hidden in my heart,
“Tell me your true story!”

□ A masterpiece created by two of Britain's best young adult novelists!

"A Monster Calls" was conceived by Seavon Dowd, who won the Carnegie Medal in 2009 for "Stay Still," a book with a new message based on the strong belief that books set people free. Patrick Ness, who won the Carnegie Medal in 2011 for the "Chaos Walking" series, which criticized the reality of serious invasion of privacy due to excessive information such as email, Twitter, and text messages, completed the work.
The Carnegie Medal holds a very special meaning among literary awards.
There is no prize money, and no commercial criteria such as whether the book sells well or not are taken into account.
The British Library Association's librarians select the books based solely on whether they are good works for children and young people.
The literary value of "A Monster Calls" can be guessed from the fact that it was born from the collaboration of two Carnegie Medal-winning authors.
Patrick Ness made the courageous decision to breathe new life into A Monster Calls, a work that was left unfinished after Seavon Dowd's death from breast cancer, and the result is a young adult novel that has captured the world's attention.

□ Confront your guilt head-on with a sincere confession!

"A Monster Calls" is a work that depicts the complex inner world of humans through the contradictory feelings of Connor, who desperately wants to save his mother while simultaneously wishing for her to leave this world.
The reason Connor suffered from terrible nightmares every night was because he wished that his mother's death would end the painful days of being increasingly isolated at school and at home due to her illness.
The guilt of having thoughts he couldn't dare say aloud weighed heavily on Connor's chest every night.
But the monster speaks to Connor.
“Life is not something to be written in words.
Life is written through action.
It doesn't matter what you think.
“It’s only what you do that matters.” Adolescence is a time to practice looking inside yourself.
Through A Monster Calls, young people will gain the courage to take responsibility for their own thoughts and actions, whether right or wrong.


□ A self-portrait of our youth with school violence, broken families, and no one to rely on!

At school and at home, Corner has lost his place.
After the divorce, his father leaves for America and is nowhere to be seen, leaving Connor to take care of all the household chores on his own in place of his ailing mother.
The maternal grandmother's domineering attitude when she came to care for her mother put a strain on Connor.
It's no different when you go to school.
Connor is an outcast at school because his only friend Lily spreads the story about Connor's mother around the school.
The teachers don't scold Connor for not doing his homework, and his friends don't talk to him.
Only Harry's gang comes near Connor, and that's to beat and harass him.
The corner's appearance resembles the state of our youth, who have nowhere to turn due to the increase in school violence and broken families.
But Connor didn't run away from the difficult situation.
He shows that he has grown up by facing the troubles that surround him with confidence, such as accepting his mother's death and rebuilding his relationship with his maternal grandmother.


□ Captivating illustrations!

As the title suggests, "A Monster Calls" is a work that deals with the dark and complex inner world of a boy.
Here, a picture that matches well with the content of the text is added, fully bringing the atmosphere of the work to life.
The artist focused on the monster in the painting, but unlike other horror films featuring monsters, there is no sense of gore or brutality.
Instead, he captured the feeling of looking into his own dark heart in his paintings, bringing to life the interesting memories of the countryside and fields he saw from the backseat of a car as a child, which at times felt unfamiliar and frightening when the sun went down.