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 a 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.

• An imagining of stepsisters Mary Shelley and Claire Clairmont's tumultuous years abroad, their affairs, friendships and tragic losses. 
• The inspiring story of the girl behind one of the greatest horror novels - and monsters -ever, perfectly timed for the 200th anniversary of the publication of Frankenstein. 
• For fans for picture book biographies such as Fantastically Great Women Who Changed The World by Kate Pankhurst.