![]() ![]() ![]() Will's story, told as an adult, capturing the spirit and point of view of a twelve year old while having some distance and wisdom of an adult. Warthrop.įull stop as we look at this great framing device. But these are not a boy's journals: they are written forty years after the death of Dr. Rick explains that what follows is the story told in the first three journals.Īnd thus the story begins. The old man just died, without heirs, and maybe Rick wants to look at it. The author Rick Yancey is speaking with someone who helped him with research for another book, and winds up with the handwritten journals of an old man, William James Henry, who insisted he was born in 1876. The Good: This seemed to be written with a checklist of "all things Liz B likes in a story." Thanks, Rick, for thinking just of me! I guess some other people liked it, also it did get a Printz Honor. Deadly man-eaters, with no heads - eyes are on shoulders, shark-like mouths in the middle of the chest - they are fast, killing and tearing apart their human food. ![]() " There are monsters that lie in wait under our beds." The object of this particular adventure? Anthropophagi. Or, to be scientific, monstrumology, the study of monsters. Pellinore Warthrop, after Will's parents die in a fire. ![]() Will Henry, 12, is taken in by his father's employer, Dr. ![]()
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