He survives bullying in the orphanage and endears himself to several of his tutors who go out of their way to teach, protect, and empower him to continue to grow into the young man he's destined to be. He is an idealist at heart, loves to read about heroes and battles between good and evil, and is in awe of teratologists, those who kill monsters and then bear a tattoo made from the monster's blood. It's the story of Rossamünd, an orphan boy growing up in Madam Opera's Estimable Marine Society for Foundling Boys and Girls, who desires, against all odds, to make something of himself. It appears that the monster is passing quite close to where the boy is hiding and that is, indeed, what takes place during one of the tension-filled scenes in the story.įoundling (Monster Blood Tattoo book I) is a story of survival. Turn the book over and you see the illustration wraps around the spine of the book and continues on the back, where you see the silhouette of a young boy hiding in the thicket. It shows the outline of a monster as it is coming out of the woods. Upon opening the envelope when the review copy came in the mail I was intrigued by the cover art. I loved reading this fantasy story once and then once more. I then went back and read it again, this time marking things as I went. The world building Cornish carries out in this book is so exquisitely woven and the story's characters so well developed that I forgot I was supposed to read the book in order to write a review and instead allowed the story to carry me along. This is a young boy's survival story that is sure to grab middle grade students' attention. The paperback edition came out September 6, 2007. The book was sent to CCF as a review copy by a Senior Editor at G.P. I just finished reading a wonderful fantasy novel for the second time: ' Foundling (Monster Blood Tattoo book I),' by first time author D.M. Monster Blood Tattoo: Book One: Foundling Home | About | Subscribe | Postcards | Polls | Translate | BookSense | BookCloseouts | Blog | | Contact Us | You help support the work of CCF when you purchase from vendors via the links posted on our site.

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