Monster Care #2: The Shiny Skeletonbird

Fun and wild monster series for children learning to read!

✓ Easy-to-read series for early readers – clear language and engaging pacing offers a fresh twist on monster stories

✓ The books explore the special bond between stepsisters, reflecting the joys and challenges of modern extended families. Themes of empathy, bravery and friendship

✓ J.S. Meresmaa’s is an award-winning author whose middle-grade novel, Darkclaw, was awarded with 2024 Tähtipöllö Award and tied for second place Kuopus Award 2024, and she is a winner of 2020 & 2023 Kuopus Award, and a nominee in 2023 for Kuvastaja Award and Tähtifantasia Award

✓  Monster Care series is set in the same Monster-Finland world as the middle-grade Monster Manor series!  Children start with Monster Care and grow into Monster Manor for more adventures in a familiar world.

Welcome to Monster Care, where magical creatures need gentle care and brave hearts! In the series, young readers join Lotta and Lili on funny, mysterious adventures as they help skeleton birds, nervous hellcats, and more in a spooky, yet sweet, world full of surprises.

Book #2: The Shiny Skeletonbird
How does one tame a fierce skeleton bird? The easy-reading and exciting Monster Care series continues.

Lili and Lotta have settled down at their aunt Elviira’s place in Monster Manor that takes care of different monsters and curious creatures. Time itself behaves differently in the manor: morning is day and day is morning! The trainee monster carers accidentally wake up a sleeping skeleton bird. How to make the creature and its frighteningly brightly shining eyes calm down?