We're Going To Find The Monster!

Join Eddie and Charlie on a fun-filled journey to find the ‘monster’ – who may turn out to be their older brother! This read-aloud favourite is written by renowned author Malorie Blackman and award winning illustrator Dapo Adeola.

Over the shimmering ocean, up the huge, high mountain, through the deep, dark forest . . . WE’RE GOING TO FIND THE MONSTER!

Full of funny, relatable characters, this is a contemporary celebration of creativity, fantasy and family. The story encourages an active imagination and is best read aloud with different inflections for each voice. The refrain will stay in their minds long after!

Malorie Blackman, best selling author of Noughts & Crosses, originally published this as Marty Monster. This new version has been stunningly brought to life by the award-winning illustrator of Look Up!, Dapo Adeola.

One of the children has the skin condition called vitiligo and there’s a link to find out more about this on the inside cover.

Meet the Illustrator

Dapo Adoela is the star illustrator of the current picture on our home page, which was commissioned for Penguin’s 85th anniversary to raise funds for the National Literacy Trust. Look Up! won the Waterstones Children’s Book Prize in 2020.

Adoela’s own author debut was in 2021 with the picture book Hey You!: An Empowering Celebration of Growing Up Black, featuring 18 talented Black British illustrators, which also went on to win Illustrated book of the year at The British Book Awards in 2022. He also illustrated the Rocket Says series by Nathan Bryon, and My Dad is a Grizzly Bear and My Mum Is a Lioness written by award-winning author Swapna Haddow.

Born in Britain and of Nigerian heritage, Adoela is an avid believer in the importance of equal representation in the creative arts. He is also passionate about making picture books accessible to partially sighted or blind children.

Find out more about his work here.