Shelley Frankenstein! (Book One): CowPiggy

Launching a new graphic novel series for middle-grade readers! Shelley Frankenstein loves to create scary monsters, but for some reason they always turn out cute…until this time.

Shelley Frankenstein is a little girl with a rather infamous family heritage! She loves to be scared and assumes all other kids feel the same. To prove her theory, Shelley and her assistant brother, Iggy, set about creating new toys to horrify their playground peers. But all of their experiments backfire in a completely unexpected way. What a disappointment!

Then one day, they stumble upon a pretty spooky place—the Frankenstein family graveyard—which gives Shelley an idea for the ULTIMATE monster... CowPiggy! Will this new creation send everyone running in terror, like a proper monster should? Or will love and silliness triumph? Find out in this delightfully upside-down graphic novel from best-selling artist Colleen Madden.

The weird fourth kid in a family of 8, Colleen Madden made it through childhood pretending to be a Wookie and doodling in her cardboard box art studio. Colleen spent some time acting and training at The Second City in Chicago, then went on to graduate from a small liberal arts school on the East coast. After twelve years of illustrating picture books (including the bestselling What If Everybody Did That? and Mariah Carey’s All I Want for Christmas Is You), she has branched out to graphic novels with Shelley Frankenstein. Colleen lives and works (and works and works and works) in the Philadelphia area.