While Puffin attempts to recreate Edvard Munch’s The Scream on a pumpkin (carving’s not easy with wings) we thought we’d blow away the cobwebs on some of the books and characters who might be celebrating Halloween.
5+ Little Monsters
Bedtime for Monsters by Ed Vere, author of Mr. Big, Banana, and The Getaway is beautifully illustrated and sheds new light on monsters everywhere. Find out what a monster really wants when his tummy rumbles . . .
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Back to Ghoul
The Worst Witch is back with a new story from Miss Cackle’s Academy! In The Worst Witch and the Wishing Star, Mildred Hubble and Tabby get a surprise when her wish comes . Did you know Jill Murphy had started creating books, literally with a stapler, when she was six and that she wrote the Worst Witch when she was only 18!
12+ Other worlds
Marissa Meyer’s The Lunar Chronicles aren’t quite the fairy tales you’ll remember. In Scarlet, Cinder is struggling to escape from prison while Scarlet Benoit begins a journey to find her missing grandmother. Working with Wolf, a street-fighter, she struggles to unravel the mysteries shrouding the disappearance. Equally gripping – and coincidentally also including a quick-witted wolf-ish character – is Rise of the Wolf, the first book in Jobling’s Wereworld fantasy series. Having thought himself a simple farmbody, one night sixteen year old Drew Ferran discovers that he is the last of the werewolf dynasty. Drew must battle the werecreatures determined to destroy him and master the animal within. It’ll leave you howling for more.
Do you dare?
Bram Stocker’s Dracula is the horror classic that inspired countless screen adaptations, from the 1979 German cult film Nosferatu, the Vampyre to the more recent Van Helsing (2004). However nothing can compare to reading page by page Jonathan Harker’s journal as he documents his visit to Castle Dracula, his imprisonment, his narrow escape, and the race to catch and kill the Count.
(Pssssssst once the kids are tucked up in bed there’s a treat for the grown-ups. Expect the unexpected in Roald Dahl's The Complete Short Stories. Discover the #darkersideofdahl with these sinister animations.)
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