Children
Before the feeling hardens.
The Monsters Inside Me gives children a visual language for fear, worry, courage, and the inner weather that can be hard to name out loud.
Emotionally honest stories across ages.
Melissa Bloodworth writes toward the feelings we meet early, and the ones that follow us. The Monsters Inside Me helps children name big feelings before they harden. frankly + human turns toward solitude, memory, and the difficult work of becoming whole.
Follow Melissa on Instagram for book moments, early sketches, and new notes from both worlds.
01 / Through line
One emotional question, two seasons of life.
Together, these projects explore what children learn to name and what adults are asked to face.
Adults
What adults learn to carry.
frankly + human follows a woman alone by choice on an abandoned Earth, until an unexpected presence forces her to face what silence could not heal.
02 / Current work
Two works, one emotional through line.
The Monsters Inside Me is now available. frankly + human is taking shape in early pages.
Now available
The Monsters Inside Me
A picture-book world about the creatures inside us: fear, worry, courage, and the first language of feeling.
Early drafting
frankly + human
Alone by choice on an abandoned Earth, a woman with a haunted past vows to live in silence, watching nature reclaim the planet. Her solitude gets disrupted by an unexpected presence and she is forced to confront her unhealed wounds and learn what it is to be fully human.
Follow updates03 / Order the book
Bring the first Emotion Monsters book home.
The Monsters Inside Me is now available wherever you prefer to buy books. A direct signed-copy option is being prepared here for readers who would like one from Melissa.
Hardcover · Ages 4–8 · Written by Melissa Marie Bloodworth
Illustrated by Niar Noyuka · ISBN 979-8995634102
04 / About
Melissa writes toward emotional truth without flattening it.
Her current work moves across two seasons of the same concern: what happens when feelings are named early, and what happens when adults begin to understand what they have carried.
The Monsters Inside Me is available now. frankly + human is in early drafting. Melissa shares updates, sketches, and process notes as both works continue to develop.
05 / Follow
Stay close to the stories.
For reading moments from The Monsters Inside Me, illustration updates, and new notes from frankly + human, follow Melissa on Instagram.
@melissambloodworth
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