Simak Büchel & Larisa Lauber
A Heart for Monsters - The Shadow Slayer
A very special team gets going: Tabati & daughter – pest controllers and monster hunters extraordinaire
8-year-old Ainu moves from village to village with her mother Tabati and pony Bifi, offering their services as pest controllers and monster hunters in a class of their own. Ainu would love to keep every monster they catch – much to her mother’s annoyance.
But the next assignment proves to be particularly dangerous: In Füllengosch, the boy Halti has been kidnapped by an eerie monster that has left behind huge tracks and tufts of night-black fur – the Shadow Slayer! Tabati wants to turn back right away, this monster is out of her league! But she hasn’t reckoned with her fearless daughter, who follows the monster’s tracks into the gurgling swamps to free Halti …
Südpol Verlag
Children’s Fiction
Original title: Ein Herz für Monster – Der Schattenschlinger
Age 8+
128 pp | € 14,00
hc | 148 x 210 mm
Publication: March 2023
Author: Simak Büchel
Illustrator: Larisa Lauber
Rights sold: Russian
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- A strong mother-daughter team - between monster hunt and everyday friction
- Child-friendly suspense for boys and girls with a touch of magic
- With expressive illustrations
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