Editor's recommendation

Audience: 3-6 years old

★ Silver Award of the second Golden Key Picture Book Creation Competition in 2019, published simultaneously in Europe

★ Fantastic picture, create a magical world that lets the imagination fly

★ Dramatic stories let children feel the wonder and importance of growing friendship

Encourage children to break the daily rules, follow their own hearts, and grow up kind and brave

Content introduction

The second Key Colours Picture Book Competition silver award work "A Little Monster's Day", children's literature writer Lu Lina and the original picture book author Xi Nian creation.

The little monster family at dinner, share their experience of the day, the monster eldest, second, third, mischief, mischief for fun, they all feel that their day is really great. The youngest monster had an ordinary but wonderful day: he met a little human girl, and they jumped rope, picked fruit, talked... Such a day without mischief, let the monster brothers have a little envy in their hearts. This also makes the monster brothers began to think, born as a little monster, is it necessary to spend every day in the way of monsters?

The author uses dramatic words and fantastic pictures to create a strange and imaginative world of little monsters for children, so that children can feel the wonder and importance of growing friendship, and encourage children to break the daily rules, follow their own hearts, and grow up kindly and bravely.

About the author

Lu Lina, a writer of children's literature, began her work in 1996 and has published more than one million words of children's literature and more than 100 books of fairy tales. His works have won Bingxin Children's Literature Award, Chen Bochui Children's Literature Award, Shanghai Writers Association Children's Literature Award, National Excellent Children's Literature Award, Relay Cup Jinbo Children's Literature Award, etc. The fairy tale work "The Story of the Little Puppet" was selected as the primary school Chinese textbook of the Human Education edition; "The Stray Dog and His Witch Friends" was included in the 2009 German "White Crow Bibliography".

Western years, freelance illustrator, author of original picture books. The illustration work "Hey, Nursery Rhyme" was shortlisted for the 2018 BIBF Pineapple Circle International Illustration Award, the picture book work "Change to Change Little Fox Fairy" was shortlisted for the 2018 Children's Book Laureate Award, and the picture book work "The Day of a Little Monster" won the Silver Award in the 2019 Golden Key Picture Book Creation Competition.

Wonderful book review

"A Day in the Life of a Little Monster" vividly shows the world with monsters as the main characters, each of which has a distinct personality.

Philippe Vallick, president of Clavis Publishing