{"id":1588,"date":"2012-06-14T20:50:52","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T00:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/?p=1588"},"modified":"2012-09-26T11:32:13","modified_gmt":"2012-09-26T15:32:13","slug":"a-monster-calls-wins-carnegie-and-kate-greenaway-medals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/a-monster-calls-wins-carnegie-and-kate-greenaway-medals\/","title":{"rendered":"A Monster Calls Wins Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/Stoker2012.htm#A_Monster_Calls_by_Patrick_Ness\">A Monster Calls<\/a><\/em> by Patrick Ness was a 2011 Bram Stoker nominee for superior achievement in a Young Adult novel, a category that contained truly brilliant writing. \u00a0<em>A Monster Calls <\/em>was much different than the other books in the category, though, an experience as much as a powerful story, due to the dark and frightening world drawn in the margins and throughout the pages- the illustrations and text complemented each other perfectly, \u00a0packing an incredible and terrifying emotional punch. The chair of the committee, Rachel Levy(quoted in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publishersweekly.com\/pw\/by-topic\/childrens\/childrens-book-news\/article\/52553-a-monster-calls-wins-carnegie-and-greenaway-medals.html?utm_source=Publis\">this article<\/a> in <em>Publishers Weekly<\/em>), said it better than I can, when expressing why the book would win both an award for the text (the Carnegie) and one for its illustration (the Greenaway):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Jim Kay\u2019s illustrations for <em>A Monster Calls<\/em> created the perfect synergy between the text and illustrations&#8230; Using only shades of black, white, and gray, he has beautifully, skillfully captured the atmosphere and emotion of the story and has produced a book that gives you a whole and satisfying experience.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s it exactly. This intense and emotional story was completely deserving of the double award it received. Congratulations to Patrick Ness and Jim Kay for their awards, and for bringing a new dimension to storytelling. Now go read the book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness was a 2011 Bram Stoker nominee for superior achievement in a Young Adult novel, a category that contained truly brilliant writing. \u00a0A Monster Calls was much different than the other books in the category, though, an experience as much as a powerful story, due to the dark and frightening<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/a-monster-calls-wins-carnegie-and-kate-greenaway-medals\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1052,433,357,1054,977,1057,1055,1056,407,41],"class_list":["post-1588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-a-monster-calls","tag-awards","tag-bram-stoker-awards","tag-carnegie-medal","tag-illustrations","tag-jim-kay","tag-kate-greenaway-medal","tag-patrick-ness","tag-publishers-weekly","tag-ya-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1588"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1964,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1588\/revisions\/1964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}