She Made a Monster

She Made a Monster: How Mary Shelley Created Frankenstein | Lynn Fulton

Behind on posts, but wanted to include this for the #scarathon photo challenge: monster. My 8 year old still finds this one a little too creepy (66 points) #BatBrigade

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mrp27

She Made a Monster: How Mary Shelley Created Frankenstein | Lynn Fulton

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#ominousoctober #monster

A wonderful picture book about Mary Shelley and her creation of one of the most iconic monsters in literature.

Eggs, Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Eggs Great choice 💜🖤💜 2y

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks 💜💜💜 2y

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biblio_ginger

She Made a Monster: How Mary Shelley Created Frankenstein | Lynn Fulton

My family's Christmas was a little wonky last year, and we weren't able to celebrate together. So I've been getting presents periodically and I'm not mad about it. 😎 These are from my Mom and they look so good!!!

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GatheringBooks

She Made a Monster: How Mary Shelley Created Frankenstein | Lynn Fulton

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#LetsTravelAugust Day 22: While this version did not include the time Mary Shelley was sent off to live with strangers in Scotland, it focused on a time at Lord Byron‘s house when five friends came together and decided to write a scary story; and thus, Frankenstein was born in Shelley‘s mind. My review: https://wp.me/pDlzr-juG

OriginalCyn620, Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Beautiful illustrations 🖤🖤 5y

IndoorDame Love the art style! 5y

OriginalCyn620 Love it! I love Frankenstein! 5y

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Krisjericho

She Made a Monster: How Mary Shelley Created Frankenstein | Lynn Fulton

so-so

The art in this would have creeped me out as a kid, but it is fitting for the story. Overall, this is an enjoyable, age-appropriate telling of the origins of Mary Shelley‘s work. But, and this is big, IT ISN‘T TRUE. The author states that she has taken liberties with what happened, & that‘s fine for a fiction book, but not for a book that purports to be an account of a true event. Not okay, especially since it isn‘t mentioned until the very end.

tournevis Let me guess, she erased the underage sex, the polyamory, the booze and the mental illness. 5y

Krisjericho @tournevis She did erase those, but in a way that kids kind of get that they aren‘t getting the full story, so I was okay with that. But she completely made up a part about Mary Wollstonecraft being on Shelley‘s mind while she wrote, where the book was written, and the circumstances around why the writing was taken place. Completely from the author‘s own imagination, and she says so, but not until the note at the very end. 5y

tournevis @Krisjericho So no dark oppressive Swiss nights of booze. Gotcha. Sheesh. 5y

tournevis @Krisjericho You know, it occurres to me that just writing about how these four people wanted to write scary stories for eachother when they were living through the dark Swiss winter would have made for a very compelling book, even without all the nsfw details. 5y

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