The Bother with the Bonkillyknock Beast: Miss Mary-Kate Martin’s Guide to Monsters 3 Volume 3

Miss Mary-Kate Martin travels the globe with her family helping solve monstrous problems in this fun fantasy adventure from the multi-award-winning author of Dragon Skin and Lenny’s Book of Everything.

’Funny and fast-paced. A thrilling combination of courage, kindness and a cleverness of the heart.’ Anna Fienberg, bestselling co-author of Tashi

Mary-Kate and her granny are going to stay at a very quiet castle near a very quiet Loch in the Scottish village of Bonkillyknock. The perfect destination for reading beside fireplaces, going for long walks in galoshes and drinking cups of tea with Granny’s old friends. At least, that’s what Mary-Kate thinks.

However, this is no ordinary reunion - it’s a World Society of Monster Hunters’ conference. So, when an ear-shattering howl interrupts the convention, Mary-Kate isn’t too anxious. After all, the experts are on hand to investigate.

But when the castle kitchen is turned upside-down and the experts suspect the usually secretive Loch Morgavie monster, Mary-Kate isn’t sure the clues add up. Could there be some other kind of beastly problem bothering Bonkillyknock Castle?

Miss Mary-Kate Martin might only be a beginner, but she’s determined to get to the end of this monstrous mystery in the third exciting instalment in the Miss Mary-Kate Martin’s Guide to Monsters series.

Karen Foxlee is an Australian author who writes for both children and young adults. She grew up in the Australian outback mining town Mount Isa and still frequently dreams she is walking barefoot along the dry Leichhardt River. She has written many acclaimed children’s books including Ophelia and the Marvellous Boy, A Most Magical Girl, the internationally successful and multi-award-winning Lenny’s Book of Everything, and Dragon Skin, which was a CBCA Honour Book, winner of the Aurealis Awards and short-listed for the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, the Indie Book Awards and the ABIA Awards. Karen’s latest books are the junior fiction Miss Mary-Kate Martin’s Guide to Monsters series, illustrated by Freda Chiu. www.karenfoxlee.com

Freda Chiu is an author and illustrator from Sydney, Australia. As well as illustrating children’s books, her work spans comics, editorial and retail graphics. Outside her art practice, Freda lectures in Illustration at the University of Technology Sydney. Her debut picture book, A Trip to the Hospital, was short-listed for the CBCA Award for New Illustrator and the IBBY Australia Ena Noël Awards. She has most recently illustrated Karen Foxlee’s junior fiction series Miss Mary-Kate Martin’s Guide to Monsters and Wai Chim’s picture book Last-Place Lin. www.fredachiu.com