Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "For the film adaptation of the novel, see A Monster Calls (film) A Monster Calls is a low fantasy novel written for children by Patrick Ness \"from an original idea by Siobhan Dowd\", illustrated by Jim Kay, and published by Walker in 2011. Set in present-day England, it features a boy who struggles to cope with the consequences of his mother's terminal cancer; he is repeatedly visited in the middle of the night by a monster who tells stories. Dowd suffered from terminal cancer herself when she started the story and died before she could write it.Author Ness and illustrator Kay won the Carnegie Medal and the Greenaway Medal in 2012, the \"year's best\" children's literary awards by the British librarians (CILIP). A Monster Calls is the only book whose author and illustrator, whether two persons or one, have won both Medals."@en }
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- A_Monster_Calls abstract "For the film adaptation of the novel, see A Monster Calls (film) A Monster Calls is a low fantasy novel written for children by Patrick Ness \"from an original idea by Siobhan Dowd\", illustrated by Jim Kay, and published by Walker in 2011. Set in present-day England, it features a boy who struggles to cope with the consequences of his mother's terminal cancer; he is repeatedly visited in the middle of the night by a monster who tells stories. Dowd suffered from terminal cancer herself when she started the story and died before she could write it.Author Ness and illustrator Kay won the Carnegie Medal and the Greenaway Medal in 2012, the \"year's best\" children's literary awards by the British librarians (CILIP). A Monster Calls is the only book whose author and illustrator, whether two persons or one, have won both Medals.".