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"""Lovingly written and painted, this strange and silly book will delight everyone who reads it.""—Eleanor Davis, author of Stinky and How to Be Happy On a normal morning, a boy named Thomas discovers his mother has been replaced by a fern . . . a monstrous fern! What happened to his mom? Did the fern eat her? Will eat his father too? Will it eat Thomas? Written by Marzena Sowa, beautifully painted by rising star Berenika Kolomycka, That Night, A Monster . . . is a unique all-ages children's comic. Marzena Sowa is an internationally renowned Polish graphic novelist. Her best known work, Marzi—a memoir of Communist Poland through the eyes of a child—has been translated into several languages. She loves dictionaries and cheesecake, hates spiders, is a crazy skateboarder, and lives in a small village in France. Berenika Kolomycka is a sculptor, illustrator, and a rising star of European comics. In 2011, she received the Grand Prix at the Lodz International Comics Festival. She lives in Poland."

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Lovingly written and painted, this strange and silly book will delight everyone who reads it. The grown-up people who read it may find it confusing. But young people, I think, will understand that in its strangeness and silliness it mirrors our own strange and silly world. -- Eleanor Davis, author of Stinky and How to Be Happy

"""Lovingly written and painted, this strange and silly book will delight everyone who reads it. The grown-up people who read it may find it confusing. But young people, I think, will understand that in its strangeness and silliness it mirrors our own strange and silly world."" -- Eleanor Davis, author of Stinky and How to Be Happy"

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Marzena Sowa is a Polish graphic novelist living in France. She was born in 1979, in a small industrial city, Stalowa Wola (Poland). She left her country in 2001 and settled in Bordeaux. Since 2006, she has lived partly in France, in a small village in Champagne, and partly in Belgium (Brussels). In collaboration with Sylvain Savoia, she published one comic book series Marzi which tells the story of her childhood in the communist Poland. The book has been translated in several languages, including English. Her new graphic novel, N'embrassez pas qui vous voulez, was recently released in France and Poland. A major theme in her writings is history. Not only facts and dates, but the people who experienced history and the way that history affects their lives. She loves dictionaries, even of the languages she doesn't speak. She is afraid of spiders and crazy about skateboarding and cheesecakes.

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