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Karen Reyes is ten years old in 1968, and she loves monsters. Monster movies, monster magazines, the idea of monsters — imagining that there are real monsters around her in her normal Chicago life. She’s also seriously bullied and outcast, with no real close friends as the book begins. And she’s telling us her own story, drawing it page-by-page in a series of notebooks, with herself as a kid-werewolf Pi in fedora and trenchcoat.

But My Favorite Thing Is Monsters is not cute. And it’s also not the kind of book where the reader understands the truth of what’s opaque to the narrator, like The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Karen is young, and there’s a lot of things she doesn’t know, and she does want to become a movie-monster, but she’s mostly clear-eyed about the world around her, and she’s...

In a recent auction, the screen rights for the acclaimed graphic novel My Favorite Thing is Monsters was won by Sony. Confused as to what My Favorite thing is Monsters is? Allow me to explain because I was just as confused when I first read this news partly because my favorite thing is also monsters... and pop tarts.

My Favorite Thing is Monsters is the title of a graphic novel written by Emil Ferris that is receiving a great deal of good reviews for its creativity and originality. It takes place in the 60's and is the fictional diary of 10-year-old, Karen Reyes. Karen is trying to solve the murder of her upstairs neighbor, Anka Silverberg, who is a holocaust survivor. The book travels back in time to Anka's life in Nazi Germany and the whole story comes together connecting other parts of people's life around the girl Karen. Oh,...