Stylish and thoughtful, The Haunted House by Kazuno Kohara, is a gorgeous picture book which is perfect for Halloween in particular. Our little girl arrives at a suspicious looking old house right on the very edge of the town. Isn’t that where haunted houses can always be found?! She soon discovers a whole host of ghosts, but…
Gorgeously vibrant language and a role reversal on the typical Halloween ghost story, Sounds Spooky is a perfect picture book for My Book Corner. A group of three children creep stealthily in to a haunted house. However this clever picture book is told from the viewpoint of the little ghost living up stairs. Those children…
Rob Scotton combines his infamous character with Halloween creating another fun picture book in the Splat series. Splat needs to come up with a Halloween costume for school. A chance encounter with a creepy crawly on his pumpkin provides Splat with just the inspiration he was looking for. However whilst everyone else’s costumes look suitable…
The Dangerous Alphabet is an alphabet book with a wonderfully quirky difference. Full of spooky illusions, rhyming couplets and an entertaining ghost story. Neil Gaiman’s picture book is particularly perfect during the run up to Halloween. Starting at A and ending with Z Gaiman pens a story of two children who head off in the…
From the muted, natural palette which emerges from the end papers to the quirky humour that is just so Klassen, This Is Not My Hat picks up fromwhere I Want My Hat Back left off, and runs with it. Klassen is doing for hats what Mo Willems did for pigeons … launching them in to…
Ever found yourself in that position? Uttering the phrases that bring your own mum to mind? ‘I mean it! did you hear me???’ Well clearly we all hadn’t read Sarah Maizes latest picture book, On My Way to The Bath, otherwise we would all know that getting to the bathroom quickly and without…
Florentine and Pig Have a Very Lovely Picnic is a fun, summery picture book from Eva Katzler and Jess Mikhail. What would you choose for the scrummiest, most loveliest picnic ever? Florentine has some great ideas. So great that she writes them down very quickly making ‘Pig’s eyes go big and funny.’ Florentine and Pig make…
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Ooh, this sounds fantastic!
Great review, thanks for posting the pictures. Really makes a difference with picture book reviews. Will order for the store…
I often hope to find interviews with Margaret Wild who fascinates me and whose work I adore. Thoroughly enjoyed this…