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''A Monster Calls'' is a low fantasy novel written for children by Patrick Ness "from an original idea by Siobhan Dowd", illustrated by Jim Kay, and published by Walker in 2011.〔 Set in present-day England, it features a boy who struggles to cope with the consequences of his mother's terminal cancer; he is repeatedly visited in the middle of the night by a monster who tells stories. Dowd suffered from terminal cancer herself when she started the story and died before she could write it.〔 Author Ness and illustrator Kay won the Carnegie Medal and the Greenaway Medal in 2012, the "year's best" children's literary awards by the British librarians (CILIP). ''A Monster Calls'' is the only book whose author and illustrator, whether two persons or one, have won both Medals.〔〔〔〔 ==Origin== Siobhan Dowd conceived the novel during her own terminal illness. She discussed it and contracted to write it with editor Denise Johnstone-Burt at Walker Books, who also worked with Ness. After Dowd's death in August 2007, Walker arranged for Ness to write the story. Later, Walker and Ness arranged for Jim Kay to illustrate it, but Ness and Kay did not meet until after it was published in May 2011.〔 ("How we made A Monster Calls: As their book wins the Carnegie and Kate Greenaway medals ..." ). Patrick Ness and Jim Kay. ''guardian.co.uk'' 14 June 2012. Retrieved 2012-06-14. 〕〔 ("A Monster Calls" ). Lara Prendergast. ''The Telegraph'' 14 June 2012. Retrieved 2012-06-14. 〕 After winning the Carnegie, Ness discussed the writing with ''The Guardian'' newspaper:〔 : I wouldn't have taken it on if I didn't have complete freedom to go wherever I needed to go with it. If I'd felt hampered at all – again, even for very good reasons – then that harms the story, I think. And I did this not for egomaniacal reasons, that my decisions were somehow automatically right or some such nonsense, but because I know that this is what Siobhan would have done. She would have set it free, let it grow and change, and so I wasn't trying to guess what she might have written, I was merely following the same process she would have followed, which is a different thing. : ... : I always say it felt like a really private conversation between me and her, and that mostly it was me saying, "Just look what we're getting away with." Kay was selected based on illustrating one scene, solicited by art director Ben Norland:〔 : Due to other commitments I had a weekend to produce an image, and I very hastily created the scene of the Monster leaning against the house. It was a technique I hadn't tried before, dictated to some degree by the time constraints, which in hindsight may have helped. : ... : I imagine the story as a moving film or piece of theatre, and I start building the props and setting the scenery around the characters. I love atmosphere, and I guess that's what I wanted to contribute. If I'd been left alone I would have avoided all of the key scenes, I was nervous about dealing with them, but Ben was fantastic in giving the book structure and, thankfully, insisting that I should tackle the explosive, energetic elements of the book. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「A Monster Calls」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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