Unleash Your Creative Monster: A Children's Guide to Writing

A funny and accessible guide to creative writing, packed with practical advice, exciting story prompts and a cast of creative monsters. Winner of the Lollies 2023 Book Awards for Non Fiction!

In the pages of Unleash Your Creative Monster, budding writers will sink their teeth into story basics, essential writing tools and the hidden secrets of the wordsmith. Featuring top tips on finding inspiration, how to keep a story moving and beating writer’s block, this essential guide has everything you need to unleash your creative monster.

Inspire the next generation of novelists with this writing guide. It covers plot and characters, and shares inventive prompts from Aliens In The Garden to Best Day Of My Life, brought to life by Olaf Falafel’s illustrations. Sunday Express (S Magazine)
Inspire the next generation of novelists with this imaginative writing guide. Children learn about structure, plot and description with inventive prompts and challenges, all brought to life by Olaf Falafel’s funny and inventive illustrations. Daily Express, Scottish Daily Express, Daily Mirror and Irish Daily Mirror
Intelligent, inspiring and lots of fun. David Almond
Such an amazing resource to get kids writing Kieran Larwood, author
This is as inspirational and practically useful a guide to writing fiction any aspiring young writer could ask for […] A bible for anyone with a big imagination. The Best Children's Books of 2022, The Big Issue

Andy Jones is the author of five novels for adults, and he hopes you will read them all when you’re grown-up. His first novel for children is called Wishes Come in Threes; it will be published summer 2022.

Olaf Falafel is an award-winning comedian, children's author and illustrator. Olaf’s picture books include Old MacDonald Heard a Parp and It’s One Giant Leek For Mankind. In 2020, Olaf started Art Club – a YouTube series packed with jokes, how-to-draw tutorials, technical tips and tricks as well as a few fantastically silly songs.

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