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    The Sugar Monster
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    The Sugar Monster

    By Maxwell Grantly

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    Who could ever think that a simple ten-minute stroll to the village grocery shop could be fraught with so much danger and excitement? Read this book and you'll be desperate to visit the village stores for your bag of sugar too. However, be careful! Watch out for the Sugar Monster.

    This story has been produced with a selection of beautiful illustrations by Skippy Beresford.

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    Maxwell craned his head towards the ear of his younger brother and he dropped his voice down to a barely audible whisper. Maxwell cupped one hand around his mouth and leant forwards, whispering a stern warning into the awaiting ear of his younger brother.

    “Skippy Skippy - can’t you see? The Sugar Monster – will eat thee!”

    Skippy’s eyebrows mounted in puzzled wonderment and the hairs on the back of his neck began to tremble and rise in a multitude of tiny goose pimples.

    “What’s a Sugar Monster?” he whispered in a trembling voice.

    Maxwell relaxed his cupped hand and lowered it to his side; his voice adopted an air of ancient knowledge as he looked sternly into the face of his younger brother.

    “Have you ever wondered why we are the only elves in the whole village?” he asked in feigned puzzlement.

    Skippy looked back at his older brother and shrugged his shoulders upwards with a slight twitch.

    “The Sugar Monster’s gobbled all the others up!” Maxwell lied, “The village used to be full of laughing, playing elven children until its awful arrival.”

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMaxwell Grantly
    Release dateJul 29, 2016
    ISBN9781370684038
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    The Sugar Monster
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    Maxwell Grantly

    Maxwell Grantly is the nom de plume of a schoolteacher, living in a small seaside town on the east coast of Great Britain. Although he has written many short stories, he does not think of himself as an author. Maxwell is, first and foremost, merely a mathematics teacher. He simply writes just because he enjoys doing so and for no other reason. Being a schoolteacher, Maxwell Grantly enjoys reading children’s literature as part of his work as well as for recreation. However, as a writer, he does not always write books that could be described as typically suitable for the younger reader: his work is incredibly varied in both syntax and style. Maxwell produces short stories that he enjoys writing and that he enjoys reading. Sometimes he uses vocabulary and imagery that is more suited to adults. At other times, he writes directly for a younger audience. This means that some of his books may only be suitable for accomplished young readers (or for adults who might like a break from their regular reading agenda) while others may be suitable for younger readers who are still developing their literacy skills. By not targeting his work to one particular audience and by not being a professional author, it does mean that Maxwell has an incredible freedom to branch out and simply write recreationally for his own artistic satisfaction. If you enjoy reading his stories then he is pleased that you were able to briefly enter his fantasy world too, if only for a brief ten or fifteen minutes.

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