Monsters Beware!

by Jorge Aguirre, Rafael Rosado (Illustrator)

Overview

Claudette is back AGAIN, and she’s ready to kick major monster butt!

She’s fought giants, clobbered dragons, and now Claudette faces her biggest challenge yet… herself! Well, that and a gang of vile monsters. It all begins when Claudette’s town hosts the annual Warrior Games. After some sneaky maneuvering, Claudette manages to gets herself, Marie, and Gaston chosen as her town's representatives. But none of Claudette’s past battles has prepared her for this. And to make matters worse, they must stop the vicious Sea Queen and her evil children from using the Warrior Games to free the dark Wizard Grombach and conquer the world!

In Monsters Beware!, the third and final book of the Claudette graphic novel series, Claudette is put the ultimate test. With her honor on the line will she learn that there's more to a fight than just winning?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781626721807
Publisher:	First Second
Publication date:	03/13/2018
Series:	The Chronicles of Claudette
Pages:	176
Sales rank:	513,005
Product dimensions:	7.40(w) x 10.60(h) x 0.30(d)
Age Range:	7 - 10 Years

About the Author

Jorge Aguirre is a Colombian-American from Columbus, Ohio. He's written for everything from the most popular children's shows to documentaries about Romanian exorcisms. He lives on the East Coast.

Born in Puerto Rico and based in Ohio, Rafael Rosado is a veteran of the animation industry. He is currently a storyboard artist for Warner Brothers, Disney, and Cartoon Network.

Editorial Reviews

Praise for The Chronicles of Claudette series:

"These stylish books — there are three so far — are called “Giants Beware!,” “Monsters Beware!” and “Dragons Beware!,” and they are just the thing for kids who like fractured fairy tales."—New York Times

Praise for Monsters Beware!:

"[Monsters Beware!] plays out with energy and charm in Rosado’s swift, modern cartooning... the story never loses sight of the fact that friendship trumps winning, intelligence and diplomacy have their place in victory, and that it’s not just shape but intention that makes a monster."—Booklist

From the Publisher

2017-12-06
Fiery as ever both of hair and temperament, young swashbuckler Claudette tackles a giant sea monster and its progeny in this third exploit.Though supremely disgusted to discover that the Warrior Games being hosted by the town of Mont Petit Pierre feature competitions in butter churning and like nonwarlike events, Claudette nonetheless enters, enlisting best friend Marie and accomplished chef and little brother Gaston as teammates. Maddeningly, they lose time after time to the three children of the duchess of the sea kingdom while other competing teams mysteriously vanish one by one. Claudette's mood improves dramatically when the sea folk, shedding at last their human disguises, turn into huge crablike creatures given to hoovering up human prey and, it seems, scheming to free evil wizard Grombach from the spell that had frozen him in Dragons Beware! (2015). Now, here's a proper knightly challenge! Rosado and colorist Novak give Aguirre's funny, dashing tale full measures of drama and gusto as, in the cinematically sequenced panels, the easy-to-follow action revs up to a glorious climactic melee. In the end the monsters are vanquished (with significant assistance from Gaston's spell for instant Aztec chocolate mousse gelato), and in a joyful surprise, all their victims come back to life—including Claudette and Gaston's long-lost warrior mom. With the exception of one black family friend, the principals are all white; Claudette and Gaston's father uses a wheelchair.Pint-sized heroes triumph again. (art notes) (Graphic fantasy. 7-12)

Kirkus Review