Monster Mission

<p>Three elderly, eccentric sisters – Aunts Etta, Coral, and Myrtle – run a secret island sanctuary for injured magical creatures, including mermaids, the strange and enormous boobrie bird, selkies, and the helpless baby of the legendary kraken.<br><br>Realizing they are too old to maintain the mission, the Aunts travel to London and controversially 'kidnap' three children – the resourceful Minette, the well-mannered Fabio, and the spoiled Lambert – to train as their successors.<br><br>While Minette and Fabio quickly embrace their duties caring for the creatures, Lambert sabotages the operation by contacting his ruthless, money-hungry father, Mr. Sprott, who arrives intending to turn the unique menagerie into a theme park. It is up to the children, the aunts and the 'monsters' to team up and save the island from the real monster . . .<br><br><b>'Wildly original and wholly satisfying' - <i>The Guardian</i></b></p>