The nights are drawing in and there's a spooky chill in the air, so we've invited top twitterer Danny Pearson and his puggy companion Jess to review their favourite Halloween read for us!
5 STARS! ***** (Stars also interchangeable with magnificent pumpkins)
Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam - The Spooky School By Tracey Corderoy and Steven Lenton Published by Nosy Crow £5.99 PB
"From the brains which brought you the massively successful Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam picture books comes the first in a new series of two-colour fiction titles.
Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam: The Spooky Schoolcontains three hilarious read-aloud stories. The Spooky School, The Wacky Weather Week and Trouble at the Museum.
Our heroes don’t just make wonderful cakes. They also solve wacky and downright crazy mysteries too. The first of the stories, The Spooky School, is a perfect
Halloween bedtime read. Halloween at St Spectre’s school will grip young readers as our dynamic duo go on the hunt to find who, or what, is behind the mysterious ghost dog.
The other two stories in this title are equally as thrilling. Readers will be flying through the pages wanting to follow Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam as they go on their adventures.
Why is the weather going crazy? Who is the mysterious power-grabbing red panda and what are those racoons up to in the local museum?
These beautifully created fiction tales of the much loved pair of pooches is ideal for growing children’s confidence as they move from picture books to longer, independent reads." - Danny Pearson
This week Team Book Sniffer were lucky enough to bag VIP passes to the Oi Dog! launch party at Waterston's Piccadilly.
Between scoffing mountains of quiche and exquisite bone shaped biscuits we managed to grab Author Kes Gray and Illustrator Jim Field to tell us a bit more about the brand new NUMBER ONE best selling hit Oi Dog! Check it out...
An absurdly funny follow up to Book Sniffer shelf-essential, Oi Frog which published only last year.
In this delightful sequel we find (uppity) Frog in a deep and heated dispute with Cat and Dog about where they should be perching and the EXACT rules of this "sitting' lark.
With alarmingly hilarious illustrations of such oddities as Slugs on Plugs and Cheetahs on Fajitas (certainly a challenge for Jim Field) we explore a myriad of potential combinations each more rib tickling and bizarre than the last.
Kes is nothing but a rhyming wizard as he cleverly builds anticipation which will have little readers chuckling and snort laughing until they are almost in tears.
This chortle inducing story is one of those books which will be read and LOVED over and over again until the pages fall out. You can't beat that.
Kes and Jim are a formidable and dynamic duo, setting a high bar in the world of children's picture books. We can't wait to see what they come up with next.
There is an unadulterated delight in finding joy in
the smallest of things; Oskar the crow does just that in this beautifully
simple exploration happiness. From the silence of snow to eating sweet red
cherries, this beautiful read will encourage young ones to indulge in an new
found appreciation of the world around them - 5*s
A HUGE Thank You to these two incredibly talented and unprecedentedly delightful illustrators and also THANK YOU to our camera man / presenter and editor the delectable Steven Lenton
