Pádraig Kenny is an Irish writer from County Kildare, now living in Limerick. Previously an arts journalist, a teacher and a librarian's assistant, he now writes full-time. His first novel Tin and recent The Monsters of Rookhaven were both Waterstones Books of the Month. He has won the Children's Books Ireland Honour Award for Fiction, been nominated for the Carnegie Medal and been shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards. This is his first book for Walker. Steve McCarthy is an Irish designer and illustrator. Steve’s first picture book, The Wilderness, won the Honour Award for Illustration at the Children’s Books Ireland Awards. His poetry anthology with Sarah Webb, A Sailor Went to Sea, Sea, Sea, was the 2017 Children’s Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards.
Everything you'd want a Frankenstein-inspired children's book to be: a thrilling gothic adventure, brimming with heart and bursting with big questions. I loved it. -- Lucy Strange In a lightning-storm of beautiful writing, Pádraig Kenny brings his extraordinary cast of characters to perfect, charming life. A marvellously delicate parable of friendship and compassion, Stitch is witty, elegant and profound. -- Jonathan Stroud A fantastic story and an important one with underlying themes of friendship, grief and owning being different. * NetGalley Reviewer * This beautiful story explores friendship, grief and the lesson that we are all different. I was a little emotional at the end of this book. * NetGalley Reviewer * It's set in the backdrop of a creepy castle with a mad professor, but the story is about more than that. I will 100% be recommending this book to my class when it's released. * NetGalley Reviewer *