Cheese
Life is like… a hunk of cheese? You know, it's not so far off if you live in Ratbridge, where wild cheeses roam the woods and everyone remembers the great cheese trade of bygone days.On the liter...
Science
Science is all about facts, right? About cut and dry provable truths and all that concrete jazz… Except in this book, that is. Instead, in Here Be Monsters!, science represents the double-sidedne...
Fashion
The fashionable ladies of Ratbridge symbolize that most unfortunate phenomenon we all know too well from the playground: peer pressure. They've bought into a special kind of groupthink, which has t...
Food
Sharing is caring when it comes to a lot of things, and food in Here Be Monsters! is definitely one of them. Through food imagery, we get an idea of which characters are emotionally available/nurtu...