Monsterwood, Book 1: Arrival. Adapted from the screenplay by Louise Gikow, Sally Anne Syberg, and Jason Rosen. Monsterwood is a young adult graphic novel series that takes place fourteen years after the king and queen of Magog met mysterious, violent deaths at the hands of a group of deformed outcasts known as monsters. Now, as a new ruler is about to be crowned, two young people from completely different backgrounds--Jovis, a scrappy, independent young commoner, and the Princess Jocosta, herself the courageous, willful heir to the throne--will reluctantly join forces on a journey into the dark and forbidding forest known as Monsterwood. There, they will discover the truth about what really happened in those dark days of betrayal and murder...and begin to fulfill their own destinies. Landing somewhere between The Lord of the Rings and the Dark Crystal, Monsterwood is a coming of age story that combines a fairy tale aesthetic with an appropriately dark edge, twists, outlandish creatures, strong female characters, and tons of action and adventure in a world that is both haunting and beautiful.