Monkey Boy

By Donovan Bixley

What a great story. I loved the mix of graphic novel and regular novel. The story was brilliantly crafted if just a little scary for my class. I loved Jimmy's relationship with his 'sea daddy'. There's a nice blend of the here and now and flashback to tell Jimmy's story. It's well worth a read but there's a warning on the back "It's a rough life at sea, so grab a bucket and hold onto your guts" never a truer word spoken.

Synopsis

Jimmy Grimholt is the youngest sailor aboard warship H.M.S. Fury, bound for bloodcurdling battle. This is not a story of cotton-candy capers. It is a story of gruesome horrors, awful amputations and ghastly ghouls ...
It's a rough life at sea, so grab a bucket and hold onto your guts.
This is going to get really ugly.

Author

Donovan Bixley is Donovan Bixley is a picture book creator, who has worked on more than 90 books in a broad range of genres, from his best-selling preschool books The Wheels on the Bus (Hodder Moa, 2010) and Old MacDonald’s Farm (Hodder Moa, 2011) to his international illustrated biographies Faithfully Mozart (PQ Blackwell/Hodder, 2005) and Much Ado About Shakespeare (Upstart, 2016). He has won numerous awards, including Best Junior Fiction at the 2015 New Zealand Book Awards For Children and Young Adults for his hybrid comic/novel, Monkey Boy (Scholastic, 2015)

Other books by the author

• Much ado about Shakespeare
• Flying furballs Dogfight
• The Great Kiwi ABC Book
• The Wheels on the Bus
• Old MacDonald's Farm
• The Looky Book
• Little Bo Peep and More...
• Pussycat Pussycat and More...
• My First Board Book Series (6 books)
• Fuzzy Doodle
• Monkey Boy
• Dinosaur Rescue: 8 BOOK SERIES
• Dragon Knight: 6 BOOK SERIES
• Three Bears Sort Of
• Little Red Riding Hood ... Not Quite
• The Weather Machine
• Dashing Dog
• Northwood
• Maddy West and the Tongue Taker
• Phoebe and the Night Creatures
• The Story of Bo and the Circus that Wasn't
• Marc Ellis' Good Fullas
• A Right Royal Christmas   
• Faithfully Mozart -the fantastic world of Wolfgang Armadeus Mozart
  The Tuotara and the Skink
• Wacko Kakapo  
• Harry Hobnail and the Pungapeople 
• Mr Tanglewood and the Pungapeople