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She Made a Monster: How Mary Shelley Created Frankenstein
By FULTON, Lynn
- ISBN
- 9780525579601
- Publisher
- Knopf.
REVIEWS
School Library Journal
Reviewed on July 1, 2018 | Elementary
Gr 3–5—The bicentenary of Frankenstein has generated a lot of attention for the origin story of its author, Mary Godwin Shelley. With this title, Fulton demonstrates the challenges of presenting literary history for younger readers. Sala's illustrations convey the gothic tone of the source material, complete with spooky trees, jagged lightning, and Shelley's famously aquiline profile. Fulton has the harder task of translating Shelley's Romantic ideas of inspiration "like a bolt of lightning" into the rhetoric...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on March 1, 2019
Like a scary campfire story, Fulton's short, descriptive passages and occasional fictionalized dialogue set the mood and drive her focused retelling of the nig...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on March 1, 2019
Like a scary campfire story, Fulton's short, descriptive passages and occasional fictionalized dialogue set the mood and drive her focused retelling of the nig...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
