Betina Birkjær
Betina Birkjær is a Danish stage artist, scenographer, and author. Her book Coffee, Rabbit, Snowdrop, Lost (Enchanted Lion) has been translated to several languages and was nominated for the Kirkus Prize 2022. Her books often explore the relationship between children and adults and their different ways of comprehending the world. Birkjær has a poetic yet precise way of telling a story with a special sensitivity for details.
Betina Birkjær
Illustrated by Zarah Juul
Translated from the Danish by Katrine Øgaard Jensen and Orien Longo
For anyone who’s ever been monster-scared comes a lighthearted book about the dark. About what lives in the attic. And about discovering that monsters are—perhaps—mostly scary in your imagination.
There’s a monster living in the attic. Not a loud monster but a quiet one. It’s probably making a kid trap. Each night, it grows in the dark. Everyone knows monsters feed on darkness.
This is Monster-Scared. With humor and charm, award-winning author Betina Birkjær and illustrator Zarah Juul show us how the things we can’t see grow bigger and scarier, how the slightest sound or shadow can send shivers down our back, and how monsters are—perhaps—mostly scary in our imagination.
Ages 3+ | Hardcover | 32 pages | ISBN: 9781945492747
September 19, 2023