Giles Paley-Phillips (text) & Gabriele Antonini (illustrations)(Maverick Books) Today I am delighted to be the Halloween pit stop of Giles’ blog tour for The Fearsome Beastie! And what better than a story about a scary child-eating monster for your Halloween night read?The beastie in question, purple and scary looking, has a fondness for going down the village just …
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Spooky Reads for Halloween
SPOOKY READS FOR HALLOWEEN (10): The Haunting of Charity Delafield
Ian Beck(The Bodley Head) Charity Delafield has been cocooned inside her father’s mansion house for as long as she can remember. She has been told her mother died in childbirth, and her father, in the name of some unknown condition she is supposed to suffer from, has prevented her from mixing with anybody else but …
SPOOKY READS FOR HALLOWEEN (9): Hubble Bubble Granny Trouble
Tracey Corduroy (text) & Joe Berger (illustrations)(Nosy Crow) What if your granny was a little bit “out there”? What if people stared at her in the street when you are out shopping with her? What if your friends found her really cool, while you just found her just a little bit embarrassing? And what if …
SPOOKY READS FOR HALLOWEEN (8): The Scariest Thing of All
Debi Gliori(Bloomsbury Children Books) Little Pip lives with his large family of rabbits in a burrow deep into a wild wood. this tiny rabbit has a huge list of things he is afraid of, some rather standard, some rather more unusual. But when he finds himself alone deep into the wood after waking late from …
Spooky Reads (7): Bloodline
Kate Cary(Egmont) When nineteen-year-old John Shaw enrols in the War and begins his duties in the trenches, he thinks that the horrors of war he will witness will be at the hands of his enemies. But it becomes clear that danger might not be across No Man’s Land after all when mysterious and charismatic Captain …
Spooky Reads (5): Little Wizard
Kazuno Kohara(Macmillan) This poor little wizard is feeling very blue as he is the only one who cannot fly and the other apprentices have left him behind to go on exciting airborne adventures. But as he strolls aimlessly through the forest he comes across the most unlikely companion: a dragon! The giant beast proves to …
Spooky Reads (4): Mouldy Monsters
AnnaLaura Cantone(Campbell Books) If you are scared of monsters, there is no need to be for the monsters in AnnaLaura Cantone’s book are scared of the dark, like sparkly things and occasionally also wear frilly pink tutus! This is a perfect book for the youngest of readers for a nightmare-free Halloween! The monsters are 100% …
Spooky Reads (3): The Dead of Winter
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 …
Spooky Reads (2) Frightfully Friendly Ghosties: Ghostly Holler-Day
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 …