Help!
A monster play-along picture book!
Published on 28. August 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
32 pages
978-1-83913-641-2 (ISBN)
Description
A hideous monster needs YOUR help to reverse the spell so he can return to his gorgeous self! Will you play along and help?
"Excuse me? You - yes, you! A naughty fairy has turned me into this hideous monster, and I need YOUR help to cure me!"
Help the monster reverse the spell by shouting SAUSAGES! ten times, picking his nose (and wiping it on a grown up), and, well you don't want to know what happens when you press his nose. Do everything right and he'll return to his true form and be gorgeous again . . . or so he thinks.
An interactive, play-along story guaranteed to make you giggle!
"Excuse me? You - yes, you! A naughty fairy has turned me into this hideous monster, and I need YOUR help to cure me!"
Help the monster reverse the spell by shouting SAUSAGES! ten times, picking his nose (and wiping it on a grown up), and, well you don't want to know what happens when you press his nose. Do everything right and he'll return to his true form and be gorgeous again . . . or so he thinks.
An interactive, play-along story guaranteed to make you giggle!
Reviews / Votes
Revoltingly funny interactive story that will have children giggling right up until the final reveal * The Bookseller, Buyer's Guide * A gut-busting crowd-pleaser. * Kirkus *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Children/juvenile
Interest Age: From 3 to 5 years
Dimensions
Height: 249 mm
Width: 251 mm
Thickness: 5 mm
Weight
202 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-83913-641-2 (9781839136412)
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Persons
Anna Brooke (Author)
Anna Brooke has been a Paris-based travel journalist for seventeen years, writing for the Sunday Times Travel magazine and The Times, and has also authored seven guidebooks on France for Frommer's. Her debut novel was a SCBWI Undiscovered Voices winner and longlisted for the Bath Children's Novel Award. When not writing, she has been an actress, a cabaret singer and an electro-pop artist, performing on stage and composing songs for films and commercials. Raised in Birmingham and Yorkshire, she now lives in Paris with her French-Canadian husband and son.
Adam Ming (Illustrator)
Adam Ming is a Malaysian illustrator based in Kuala Lumpur. Straight out of art school Adam was illustrating a monthly column in 'Going Places Magazine' (Berita Publishing). From 2010-2020 Adam worked as a Creative Director on a number of apps, most notably Zapzapmath where he created 160 maths games for kids from K through 6.
In 2021 with the birth of his daughter, Zelda, Adam moved back into creating witty and energetic illustrations with a comic sensibility for picture books. And he believes EVERYONE should keep a daily sketchbook!
Anna Brooke has been a Paris-based travel journalist for seventeen years, writing for the Sunday Times Travel magazine and The Times, and has also authored seven guidebooks on France for Frommer's. Her debut novel was a SCBWI Undiscovered Voices winner and longlisted for the Bath Children's Novel Award. When not writing, she has been an actress, a cabaret singer and an electro-pop artist, performing on stage and composing songs for films and commercials. Raised in Birmingham and Yorkshire, she now lives in Paris with her French-Canadian husband and son.
Adam Ming (Illustrator)
Adam Ming is a Malaysian illustrator based in Kuala Lumpur. Straight out of art school Adam was illustrating a monthly column in 'Going Places Magazine' (Berita Publishing). From 2010-2020 Adam worked as a Creative Director on a number of apps, most notably Zapzapmath where he created 160 maths games for kids from K through 6.
In 2021 with the birth of his daughter, Zelda, Adam moved back into creating witty and energetic illustrations with a comic sensibility for picture books. And he believes EVERYONE should keep a daily sketchbook!