Mary and Frankenstein: The true story of Mary Shelley

瑪麗‧雪萊 科學怪人的誕生者 科幻小說鼻祖瑪莉很喜歡故事，不過她愛的可不是一般的故事，而是恐怖故事！經歷過一段慘痛的童年後，18歲的瑪莉遠離家鄉，來到瑞士，和有名的詩Percy Bysse Shelley珀西·比希·雪萊交往。某個風暴夜晚，在日內瓦湖邊的小屋裡，瑪莉一家人圍著火爐取暖。就著溫暖與幽暗的氣氛，瑪莉開始講起鬼故事，只不過，瑪莉想像的鬼故事可精彩千萬倍。當瑪莉耳聞電擊能讓瀕臨死去的青蛙抽搐、扭曲，可能因此回生的資訊時，她做了惡夢，也因為這個惡夢，促使瑪莉開始動筆寫下腦海中的更恐怖萬分的故事—科學怪人—是西方文學的第一部科幻小說，瑪莉也因此被譽為科幻小說之母。It began with a girl named Mary. She liked to daydream and imagine. And she grew up to write Frankenstein.The inspirational true story of the great writer Mary Shelley, brought to life for children in this stunning picture book by multi-award winning author Linda Bailey and with beautiful illustrations from Júlia Sardà.Mary loves stories, but the stories in her daydreams are far more thrilling than those in any book. After a troubled childhood, eighteen-year-old Mary runs away to Switzerland with the famous poet Percy Bysse Shelley, her step-sister in tow. One dark and stormy night at his house by the lake, they huddle around the fire, telling ghost stories. But Mary can imagine better than those! After learning about electricity that can make dead frogs twitch, she has a nightmare that triggers the birth of one of the greatest scary stories of all time: Frankenstein...A perfect read for the very youngest aspiring writers, and for fans of Neil Gaiman and Chris Riddell’s The Sleeper and the Spindle.Praise for the illustrator: “Júlia Sardà's illustrations are dark, dream-like, detailed” THE TIMES