The Great Grrrrr - by Marie-Sabine Roger (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

Meet an impatient monster with serious anger management issues!

The Great Grrrrr works for an express delivery service. A monster on a mission, he must deliver a package to a cottage in the country. But, when the recipient isn't home, he becomes increasingly frustrated and then angry. Just when he has destroyed the cottage out of an explosive bout of rage, the homeowner shows up and everything changes. The Great Grrrrr learns to manage his anger issues and finds patience and perhaps a new perspective on life. This hilariously entertaining book takes frustration and impatience to a ridiculous extreme and finds humor in uncontrolled emotions no toddler will fail to recognize. Expressively illustrated by Marjolaine Leray in sketchy crayon drawings with bright neon second color to accent the visual drama.

Review Quotes

"This French import is, by all accounts, born for storytimes. . . . just delightful, right down to its endpapers."-Betsy Bird, Fuse #8/School Library Journal

"Ever have the cover art of a picture book immediately draw you in? That happened to me when I received this book just yesterday. And after reading it, I knew I had to share it with you all right away.

Where this story really shines is with its illustrations. Drawn in sketchy crayon with shades of gray against neon pink, the drawings exude tons of emotion and add so much to the drama that builds throughout the book. It's an excellent story that finds a little humor in taking uncontrollable frustrations and impatience to the extreme."-Kidlit is Magic

"Hard pencil lines portray a monstrous interpretation of impatience in the two-tone illustrations of this picture book. . . The dark lines of the Great Grrrrr contrast with soft shades of pink on the grandmother and her cottage in the expressive illustrations".-Foreword Reviews

About the Author

Marie-Sabine Roger was a kindergarten teacher for ten years before she decided to dedicate herself to writing. She is now a renowned children's author and has published around a hundred picture books and novels. She has received many awards and prizes in her native France and has had several novels for adults adapted for the screen.

Since she was a child, Marjolaine Leray has loved to draw. She studied applied arts at school, after which, armed only with a black and a red pencil, she scribbled her first picture book, which came out in 2009. Since then, she has written and illustrated several picture books and continues to pursue art through drawing, animation, photography, and graphic design. Visit her at marjolaineleray.com.

Translator, Angus Yuen-Killick is the founder and publisher of Red Comet Press. Originally from the UK, he lived in Rome, Italy during the 1980s where he taught English. He now lives and works in brownstone Brooklyn, New York.