Patrick Ness: A Monster Calls

Bookworm

KCRW

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4.5 • 606 Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2016

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Patrick Ness' A Monster Calls – about a boy facing tremendous conflict with a bully at school, well-meaning inattentive teachers, and a dying mother – was actually already a story begun by another writer, who died before finishing it.

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0:00.0	Funds for Bookworm are provided in part by Lannin Foundation.
0:04.3	Boots!
0:09.2	Where would we be without books?
0:13.1	Where would we be without good?
0:15.3	No, Timber.
0:16.9	It's a rhetorical question, sir.
0:20.2	But where would we be without books?
0:23.8	From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Michael Silverblot, and this is Bookworm.
0:29.6	My guest is Patrick Ness.
0:32.2	He's the author of many books, but most prominently for this season, a monster calls, which is being released
0:41.8	as a movie.
0:44.3	And it's a fascinating movie.
0:48.4	It brings up all kinds of emotional issues about monsters, about children's books, about how to talk about the
0:58.8	things in childhood that are the most painful.
1:01.4	And it won awards, both as the best young adult novel that year, as well as for the best
1:10.7	illustrations.
1:12.1	These were British awards.
1:13.6	It's rare for a book to win in both categories.
1:17.6	Indeed, unique.
1:18.3	It's the first one to do so.
1:19.5	It's wonderful.
1:21.0	And when I read it, although the movie was the occasion, I found the book extraordinarily moving, and I wanted
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