Monster Care #4: The Wily Water Devil

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 #4: The Wily Water Devil A water devil is loose! All kinds of things happen in the easy-reading and exciting Monster Care series.

Lili and Lotta are spending their summer in the Monster Manor, a place that takes care of monsters. During the night, Lotta starts feeling homesick, but, luckily, her mind becomes occupied by a puzzling task: they have to catch an injured water devil who has left puddles all over the floor. How will they coax the elusive creature out of hiding?