Hubble Bubble and the Super-Spooky Fright Night Tracey Corderoy (text) & Joe Berger (illustrations) (Nosy Crow) With its gorgeous Hallween-y cover, this latest book from the Hubble Bubble young fiction series ( a spin-off of the bestselling picture book series) puts you in the right mood straight away. Pandora is having a Halloween party with her …
Penguin and Pumpkin Salina Yoon (Bloomsbury Children’s Books) Salina Yoon’s books are just perfect for toddlers , thanks to their bold and bright artwork and simple text. This latest title in no exception; Penguin and Pumpkin is a gentle tale of celebrating Autumn and one of its most prominent Halloween features: pumpkins. As you can …
Here are a few titles for newly independent and more fluent readers which will suit Halloween-themed reading. Arthur and the Witch Johanne Mercier (text) & Clare Elsom (illustrations) Arthur et la sorcière de bout du lac, translated by Daniel Hahn (Phoenix Yard) When Arthur find a secret hoard of blueberries at Picket Lake, he decides to …
S.C. Ransom(Nosy Crow) Please be aware that Scattering Like Light is the final tome of a trilogy and therefore there might be spoilers in this review! Scattering Like Light picks up where Perfectly Reflected left off. Alex and her family are on their way to Spain for a family holiday. But on Alex’s mind is …
S.C. Ransom(Nosy Crow) Please be aware that Perfectly Reflected is the second in a trilogy of books and that there are some spoilers in this review! To enjoy Perfectly Reflected fully, please read Small Blue Thing first (you can find my review here) Perfectly Reflected picks up a few days after the end of Small …
S.C. Ransom(Nosy Crow) When seventeen year-old Alex finds an unusual looking bracelet while she tries to rescue a swan caught on wire on the banks of the Thames, she thinks nothing of wearing it. It’s so pretty, and so unusual. But soon strange things start to happen: the apparition of a young man wearing a …
Chris Priestley(Bloomsbury Children’s Books) Michael Vyner is burying his mother and trying to face the fact that he is now an orphan when he is approached by a lawyer, Jerwood, who is representing a certain Sir Stephen Clarendon, who claims to be his guardian. Michael knows the name of course, as Sir Stephen is the man …
Daren King (text) & David Roberts (illustrations)(Quercus) After scaring off the coinhabitants – the lives ones – of their house, our frightfully friendly ghosties are back in a new adventure. It’s winter and it is cold so they decide they fancy a holler-day by the sea, where apparently the weather is always nice. They seem …
Daren King(Quercus) Pamela Fraidy, who is a ghost, has been locked into the attic by mistake by the still-alives. She is desperate to get out, as she has found out she has a leggy spider for company. The other frightfully friendly ghosties are desperately trying to get out of there but it is no easy …
Andi Watson(Walker Books) Strange things always seem to happen around Glister Butterworth so when a teapot appears, unannounced, on her doorstep, Glister doesn’t batter an eyelid and busies herself making a cup of tea for herself an her rather unorthodox father. But the teapot is haunted and Glister soon finds herself enrolled in fulfilling the …
