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Here Be Monsters! (Ratbridge Chronicles, the) | 
 enlarge | Creator: Alan Snow
Publisher: Atheneum
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 841041
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Media: Hardcover
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 544
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.1
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.1 x 1.8
ASIN: B000W0DFTG
Publication Date: June 20, 2006
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Product Description
Skulduggery is afoot!Welcome to Ratbridge. But beware -- for there is skulduggery afoot. Young Arthur has fallen foul of the appalling outlaw, Snatcher, and is trapped alone in the town with every way home sealed. Meanwhile Snatcher and his men are working tirelessly in secret on a fiendish and dastardly plan to take over -- and destroy -- the entire town. With the help of Willbury Nibble, QC; some friendly boxtrolls and cabbageheads; Marjorie the frustrated inventor; and the rats and pirates from the Ratbridge Nautical Laundry, can Arthur thwart Snatcher's evil plans -- and find his way home?
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Unexpected Delight, and Save the Cheeses! August 15, 2008
The previous reviewer provides a great overview of this book. What I can say is that this book had my entire family on the edge of its seat. We truly had no idea what was coming next, and simply found it nearly impossible to put down. Alan Snow has created a wonderful, imaginative, and witty cast of characters that are simply amazing. The story takes us in places that even those well-versed in childrens literature will find unusual and delightful. If you are looking for the unexpected and imaginative, I highly recommend this book.
Imaginative April 10, 2008
This book is not targeted for my age range (adult), but it is excellent! So very imaginative!! I can't wait to see how it ends, or how the "Volume 2" will be!!
Illustrations by the author are excellent also, the scenes are just as he describes them.
This should hold any kids attention, even ones who don't like to read...
Awsome!! March 24, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I love this book because every little part of it is very interesting and you are hooked to it the whole time. It has a little mystery, some action, and the author is good at descriptions. This book reminds me of the books by Roald Dahl. I recommend this book to people of all ages.
Monsters are your friends March 23, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Monsters are not monsters at all in this great read. I enjoyed reading this as a bedtime story. It was a little tough to stop and display the illustrations to kids on a bunk bed, but the pictures are just too good and meant to be shared.
 A Dodgy Tanner November 13, 2006
4 out of 18 found this review helpful
If you ask me, HERE BE MONSTERS! is no classic, not even a keeper. I tried reading this book to some kids, and they weren't even interested an iota. Even some English children visiting San Francisco turned their nose up at it, seeing it for what it is, a goodhumored attempt to capture some of the late Roald Dahl's popularity by marrying his "children come first" philosophy to the epic fantasy saga plot of Philip Pullman or whoever the latest upstart is. That's where the big money is, you see. I will say that three of the children (ages 4-7) enjoyed Snow's cross hatched drawings of the many inventivce creatures who populate his underground kingdom. Where I see sloppy sub-par Tenniel drawings, children see the many-shadowed intimations of adulthood drawing around them like night shades. I expect that Snow will bewitch some readers, especially those with visual acuity, while turning off some with his witless puns ("I'm a BIG CHEESE") and the incredibly longwinded storytelling--five hundred pages, and this is just volume one! Does he farm out the drawings to others? How does he get all his work done?
As for little Arthur, he was okay, with gumption to spare--but I hate gumption. Long ago there was a great novel for young people called THE GAMMAGE CUP by Carol Kendall--anyone remember this book? It had everything that HERE BE MONSTERS has and more (well, it didn't have MONSTERS' exclamation point, but it didn't need one) (indeed Grandma always said, never trust a book that tries to excite you with an exclamation mark)--only THE GAMMAGE CUP was a shapely 160 pages, so wouldn't make much of a splash in today's steroid driven market where the longer the better. In the meantime, I know a few kids who will be looking forward to the next installment of RATBRIDGE, and one of them has taken up drawing all by himself, after Snow, saying, "Kevin, look at Snow's people, the way they start out by being tic tac toe puzzles, then next time you look they have arms and legs and faces."
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