Katrine Øgaard Jensen
Katrine Øgaard Jensen is a recipient of several fellowships and awards for her writing and translations, including the Danish Arts Foundation’s Young Artistic Elite Fellowship in 2020 as well as the 2018 National Translation Award in Poetry for her translation of Third-Millennium Heart by Ursula Andkjær Olsen (Broken Dimanche Press/Action Books 2017). She is the translator, together with Orien Longo, of Monster-Scared.
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