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Review of The Wrong Train
The Wrong Trainby Jeremy de Quidt; illus. by Dave SheltonMiddle School Fickling/Scholastic 209 pp. g7/17 978-1-338-12125-4 $18.99e-book ed. 978-1-338-12126-1 $11.99This unsettling collection of eight ghost stories, framed by a ninth, will surely delight fans of the eerie and the macabre. A British boy hurriedly boards a train one night, but...
Review of Creepy Pair of Underwear!
Creepy Pair of Underwear!by Aaron Reynolds; illus. by Peter BrownPrimary Simon 48 pp.8/17 978-1-4424-0298-0 $17.99e-book ed. 978-1-4814-7670-6 $10.99This companion book to the author-illustrator team’s Creepy Carrots humorously spookifies another not-usually-scary item. While underwear-shopping with his mom, young bunny Jasper Rabbit spies a pair of green glow-in-the-dark undies with a Frankenstein’s-monster...
Halloween treats
The Halloween countdown is on. As certain people in my house wait not-so-patiently for the witching hour on October 31, we've been working our way through our pile of favorite spooky picture books and are looking forward to checking out some new ones from the library.Happily, the ghosts and ghouls...
From The (Ghoulish) Guide: Horn BOO! 2017
In addition to Boo Who? and Creepy Pair of Underwear, reviewed in the September/October 2017 issue, here are nine new picture books our staff thinks are unboolievably right for Halloween reading.Clickard, Carrie Magic for Sale32 pp. Holiday 2017 ISBN 978-0-8234-3559-3e-book ISBN 978-0-8234-3910-2K–3 Illustrated by John Shelley. In a story...
Review of The Magician and the Spirits: Harry Houdini and the Curious Pastime of Communicating with the Dead
The Magician and the Spirits: Harry Houdini and the Curious Pastime of Communicating with the Deadby Deborah NoyesMiddle School Viking 152 pp.8/17 978-0-8037-4018-1 $18.99In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Spiritualist movement swept the nation. Noyes (Ten Days a Madwoman, rev. 1/16) uses Harry Houdini’s attempts to discredit...
Review of Elizabeth and Zenobia
Elizabeth and Zenobiaby Jessica Miller; illus. by Yelena BryksenkovaIntermediate, Middle School Amulet/Abrams 202 pp. g9/17 978-1-4197-2724-4 $16.99Elizabeth’s father is gloomy since her mother left; Witheringe House, his childhood home to which he returns with his daughter, is gloomier. Elizabeth’s main company is Zenobia, a vivacious, morbid, obsessed-with-clairvoyance friend who, although...
Books mentioned in the October 2017 issue of Notes from the Horn Book
Five questions for Deborah NoyesThe Magician and the Spirits: Harry Houdini and the Curious Pastime of Communicating with the Dead by Deborah Noyes, Viking, 11–14 years.Supernaturally good scaresPoe: Stories and Poems: A Graphic Novel Adaptation by Gareth Hinds, Candlewick, 11–14 years.The Wrong Train by Jeremy de Quidt, illus. by Dave...
Five questions for Deborah Noyes
In The Magician and the Spirits: Harry Houdini and the Curious Pastime of Communicating with the Dead (Viking, 11–14 years), Deborah Noyes homes in on the Spiritualist movement during the turn of the twentieth century (think séances, spirit photography, ectoplasm, etc.) — and on Harry Houdini's efforts to debunk its...
Family curses, grief, and fate
These recent books for middle graders dip into the supernatural (ancestral curses, spectral mothers, ghost frenemies, growing skeletons) to raise larger questions about family, friendship, memory, grief, and love.In Lauren DeStefano's The Girl with the Ghost Machine, ten-year-old Emmaline Beaumont and her father Julien are devastated by Emmaline's mother's sudden...
Scared silly
The following picture books perfect for Halloween put their own silly spins on thrills, chills, and…creepy underwear? For more, see "From The (Ghoulish) Guide: Horn Boo!"In Boo Who? by Ben Clanton, a little ghost named Boo is new to the neighborhood. He isn't very good at the games his new...
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