The Ness Monsters Learn First Aid: Guess who ends up looking like a mummy!

The Ness Monsters is a family of engaging, entertaining, endearing characters whose personalities primarily appeal to children and whose messages will resonate with parents and grandparents as valuable life lessons. Every Ness Monster is sure to remind us of someone we know.

Children will learn about life, love and the value of generosity, honesty, morality, manners, courtesy, health, fun, fitness, independence, relationships, assertiveness, risk-taking, peer pressure, self-image, responsibility and the importance of family.

In this, the third book of The Ness Monsters, Friendly Ness explains some of the items in his first aid kit when Silly Ness asks for a 'hand-aid' for Naughty Ness who 'fell off his pongo stick'.

Marcus Tarrant has been a writer virtually all his life, primarily an advertising copywriter. He founded and operated The Copyschool which trained many of Australia's best copywriters over 20 years. He has lectured at the Australian Film, Television and Radio School as well as numerous universities. After serving as Creative Director of several multinational agencies, including he founded his own, highly successful agency, 'THEM' (Tarrant Haysom & Manzie), and, ten years later, 'Us', which created many highly successful and award-winning campaigns. He has now 'downscaled' (his new Company is 'Me') to focus on a few of personal projects, including The Ness Monsters. Marcus' sister, Christine Durham, is an accomplished author.

Nick Watson is one of Australia's most experienced Illustrators and Character Designers, having been one of the few character artists approved by the world's leading animation studios, including Disney and Warner Bros). Working with the major producers gave Nick an understanding of the depth of personality that he was able to express though his art. Nick has been in constant demand for decades for developing cartoon and animated characters, for 3D Modelling, Caricatures and all kinds of design assignments. As well as his own books and characters, Nick has been the artistic hand behind Warren Warren, Emma's Ark, Tiny Ted and The Serficles'.