Help!: A monster play-along picture book!
By (Author) Anna Brooke
Illustrated by Adam Ming
Andersen Press Ltd
Andersen Press Ltd
1st September 2025
United Kingdom
Children
Fiction
Childrens / Teenage fiction: Interactive adventure stories
Childrens / Teenage fiction: Humorous stories
Childrens / Teenage general interest: Fairies, elves, etc
Paperback
32
Width 250mm, Height 250mm
A hideous monster needs YOUR help to reverse the spell so he can return to his gorgeous self! Will you play along and help Excuse me You yes, you! A naughty fairy has turned me into this hideous monster, and I need YOUR help to cure me! Help the monster reverse the spell by shouting SAUSAGES! ten times, picking his nose (and wiping it on a grown up), and, well you dont want to know what happens when you press his nose. Do everything right and hell return to his true form and be gorgeous again . . . or so he thinks. An interactive, play-along story guaranteed to make you giggle!
"Revoltingly funny interactive story that will have children giggling right up until the final reveal" * Bookseller's Buyers Guide *
Anna Brooke (Author) Anna Brooke was been a Paris-based travel journalist for seventeen years, writing for the Sunday Times Travel magazine and The Times, and has also authored seven guidebooks on France for Frommers. Her debut novel was a SCBWI Undiscovered Voices winner and longlisted for the Bath Childrens Novel Award. When not writing, she has been an actress, a cabaret singer and an electro-pop artist, performing on stage and composing songs for films and commercials. Raised in Birmingham and Yorkshire, she now lives in Paris with her French-Canadian husband and son.Adam Ming (Illustrator) Adam Ming is a Malaysian illustrator based in Kuala Lumpur. Straight out of art school Adam was illustrating a monthly column in Going Places Magazine (Berita Publishing). From 2010-2020 Adam worked as a Creative Director on a number of apps, most notably Zapzapmath where he created 160 maths games for kids from K through 6. In 2021 with the birth of his daughter, Zelda, Adam moved back into creating witty and energetic illustrations with a comic sensibility for picture books. And he believes EVERYONE should keep a daily sketchbook!