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|title=Monstrous Maud:Big Fright

|author=A B Saddlewick

|publisher=Michael O'Mara Books

|date=May 2012

|summary=Not just a gaudy franchise, but a worthwhile debut for a new series of the spooky and comically horrible for the very young.

}}

Meet Monstrous Maud. Fed up with her pink and perfect sister, and the boring, do-goody types she suffers at school, she is not too disappointed when she – and her pet rat – are expelled, and forced to attend a very different institution. Rotwood School is a veritable hell-hole for anyone else, with maggoty food, and all the stereotypes of horror fiction as the pupils. Maud – being so monstrous – fits in perfectly – or at least she would if she is allowed to stay…