School’s out and summer camp’s in! When Marvin and his friends meet Joey, a lake monster with a loud mouth and few manners, it seems that Marvin is the only kid in camp who will be his friend. And Marvin’s friendship with the lake monster is causing ripples among his other friends. No one wants to be around the kid who cuts in line, or talks over them, or tells them what he really thinks about their art project. But Joey secretly wants only one thing: friends. Can Marvin help Joey learn how to make—and keep—friends? Marvin's hilarious doodles and diary entries chronicle his delightful adventures, misadventures, and eventual triumph in a funny, relatable way. It's the one series on ADHD and associated issues that kids will actually want to read!
Arief Kriembonga is a children’s and comic book illustrator, a UI/UX and graphic designer, and a single-origin coffee connoisseur who lives with his wife and one beloved daughter in Jakarta, Indonesia.
Raun D. Melmed, MD, FAAP, a developmental and behavioral pediatrician, is the director of the Melmed Center in Scottsdale, Arizona, and co-founder and medical director of the Southwest Autism Research and Resource Center. He is the author of Autism: Early Intervention; Autism and the Extended Family; and a series of books on mindfulness for children: Marvin's Monster Diary: ADHD Attacks, Timmy's Monster Diary: Screen Time Stress, Harriet's Monster Diary: Awfully Anxious, Marvin's Monster Diary 2 (+Lyssa): ADHD Emotion Explosion, Marvin's Monster Diary 3: Trouble with Friends (But I Get By, Big Time!), and the next in the series, and Marvin's Monster Diary 4: Bullying.
Caroline Bliss Larsen is a children’s book author and full-time editor. To clear her head of words from time to time, she likes to Irish dance, play games, and snuggle her nieces, nephew, husband, and delightfully clingy cat.
Arief Kriembonga is a children’s and comic book illustrator, a UI/UX and graphic designer, and a single-origin coffee connoisseur who lives with his wife and one beloved daughter in Jakarta, Indonesia.
Raun D. Melmed, MD, FAAP, a developmental and behavioral pediatrician, is the director of the Melmed Center in Scottsdale, Arizona, and co-founder and medical director of the Southwest Autism Research and Resource Center. He is the author of
Autism: Early Intervention; Autism and the Extended Family; and a series of books on mindfulness for children:
Marvin's Monster Diary: ADHD Attacks, Timmy's Monster Diary: Screen Time Stress, Harriet's Monster Diary: Awfully Anxious, Marvin's Monster Diary 2 (+Lyssa): ADHD Emotion Explosion, and the next in the series,
Marvin's Monster Diary 3: Trouble with Friends (But I Get By, Big Time!). Caroline Bliss Larsen edits BYU Independent Study courses by day and writes and edits novels by night. She is also a freelance acquiring editor for Jolly Fish Press and Flux, middle grade and young adult imprints of North Star Editions. She graduated in language, literature, and editing at Brigham Young University. She is the coauthor of
Marvin's Monster Diary 2 (+Lyssa!): ADHD Emotion Explosion and
Marvin's Monster Diary 3: Trouble with Friends. Originally an East Coast girl, Caroline lives in Utah with her game-designer husband. To clear her head of words from time to time, she likes to Irish dance, play board games, and snuggle her nieces, nephew, husband, and delightfully clingy cat, Cinder. Follow her on most major social media platforms, or visit
carolineblisslarsen.com.
