By Holly Swain (author) , Holly Swain (illustrator) Part of the A Colin and Duck Story series
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Colin and Duck are back - and this time, there's something lurking in the castle dungeon!
The third book in the award-winning Colin and Duck series!
Welcome back to Colin's Castle - where Colin and Duck have noticed a VERY strange noise! They search from top to bottom, finding rooms they have never been in before - and rooms they will never go in again. Soon there is only one place left to look … the DUNGEON!
Uh-oh! Colin and Duck have never been inside the dungeon. What - or who - is making the noise … and why?!
Check out this seriously suspenseful picture book!
The perfect book to share or gift during spooky season!
A hilarious readaloud story
Colin's Castle won the English Association 4-11 Picture Book Award 2024 and the Oxfordshire Book Awards Best Picture Book 2025.
Holly Swain is a children’s book illustrator, living in Hove with her husband Matt and their two daughters. As a kid she always loved to draw, making up characters and their worlds. She used to have a huge roll of paper under her bed that she constantly drew on which gradually got smaller and smaller, by which time she was big enough to go to college. She studied Illustration at UWE Bristol and then did an MA in Brighton.
Colin’s Castle is her debut picture book as both author and illustrator.
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Closing date: 16/10/2026
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Colin and Duck are back - and this time, there's something lurking in the castle dungeon! The third book in the award-winning Colin and Duck series!
The LoveReading4Kids Editorial Team have read and reviewed Colin's Monster and determined it is suitable for children aged 3-6 years old
Colin's Monster features in the following genres: Featured Books for 3+ readers, Featured Books for 5+ readers, Recommendations, Stories about Family and Friends, Funny, Mystery / Mythology, People / Places, Personal Social Health Economic (PSHE), Picture storybooks, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Vampires, werewolves and shapeshifters, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Celebrations, holidays, festivals and special events, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Emotions, moods, feelings and behaviours, Children's and Young Adult Fiction, Children’s, Teenage and Educational, Children’s picture books, Children’s: picture books, activity books, early learning concepts, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Supernatural and mythological creatures, Children’s / Teenage: General interest
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Colin's Monster was written by Holly Swain and published by Farshore an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Colin's Monster has 32 pages
Yes it is part of A Colin and Duck Story series
£7.19, reduced from £7.99. In Stock.
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