Monsters on the Wall

Synopsis of Book

Kai-Kai is afraid to sleep at night. He sees monsters from shadows dancing across his wall! A giant lizard, a tarantula, a python and a large flying insect! What’s next? Is he going to be eaten?

Now what Kai-Kai doesn’t know is that he has a secret protector in the night, a little princess who loves him very much. Be touched by the friendship between a boy and his princess as they battle to keep monsters at bay.

About the Author

Adeline Foo first dreamt of becoming a writer when she was a little girl. A recipient of the inaugural First Time Writers & Illustrators Publishing Initiative presented by the Media Development Authority and the National Book Development Council of Singapore in 2006, she has not stopped writing since winning the award and has eight published children’s books. Adeline’s books have received excellent media reviews and have made their way to Frankfurt and Melbourne. Three of her books had crossed over from print to screen as animation shorts, one of which was screened at Cannes. The “Monsters in the Mind” books address the child in her who never quite grew up and allow her to be ingenious in banishing monsters that stride on walls!

About the illustrators

Joshua Chiang is a self-taught illustrator-scriptwriter-director and also the founder of Cerealbox Studios. His love of visual storytelling began in early childhood with a regular diet of Hollywood films, Hong Kong TV dramas, superhero comics, and ‘lian huan hua’ – illustrated booklets depicting Chinese folklore and mythology. At age nine, he sold his first comic, The Adventures of Hercules and Odysseus, to his mother for ten cents. Monsters On The Wall is his first venture in illustrating a children’s book.

Din is a Fine Arts graduate who works as a full-time freelance illustrator, designer and digital painter. His flair for visual arts blossomed at a tender age as he covertly doodled on the walls of his living room, much to his parents’ displeasure. Din’s previous publications deal mostly in comics for older audiences, and this is his first attempt at a children’s book.

About the ‘Monsters In The Mind’ Series of Books

Written by Adeline Foo, this book series, targeted at children ages 6 and above, feature monsters’ as central characters. These monsters, however, are intangible ones derived from shadows, sounds and imaginations in overdrive. Each story's moral, subtly embedded, touches on positive values such as love, kindness and trust. It is hoped that as children read on and discover that the monsters exist only in their minds, they will banish their fear of them. Other books in this series include The Thing Under My Bed, Nu-Nu, The Ring-Necked Monster and Guai Wu, The Monster Child.

For general enquiries, please contact the publisher:

Chan Wai Han, Publishing Manager,
Pagesetters Services Pte Ltd
Tel: 6846 4771, waihan@ethosbooks.com.sg or,

Adeleena Araib, Snr. Publishing Executive,
Pagesetters Services Pte Ltd
Tel: 6846 4771, adeleena@pagesetters.com.sg