The Mud Monster
An ideal bath time book that also shows how working together is the best way to get things done!
The Mud Monster is a huge and horrible beast. Everyone knows that it lives in the muddy pond, and everyone is afraid of it. Yet no one has actually seen it. Then one day it appears, causing terror all round. And it has a really amazing variety of shapes. An awful lot of mud has to be washed off before the truth emerges...
Creators
Jonnie Wild's interest in conservation was first stimulated by his own children's distress at learning about destruction of the rainforests. He set up the Yorkshire Rainforest project, which planted new forest trees in an Amazon area as big as Yorkshire, and now has similar projects all over the world. He works with environmental scientists at the University of Leeds, supporting collaborative research and action in conserving forest habitats for the benefit of both animals and humans.
Brita Granstrom is an illustrator and painter whose children's books have won the Smarties/Nestle Silver Award, the English Association Picture Book Award five times, and have been shortlisted twice for the ALMA - the largest international children's book award in the world. Many years ago Brita worked for the charity AMREF in Kenya and Uganda. That experience - and all the wildlife she saw on her travels - colours the witty artwork in Carnivorous Crocodile. Brita Granstrom lives in Berwick-upon-Tweed.
