Giggling Ghosts

In a busy town, when it's quiet after dark, there is a house full of ghosts who are ready to scare! Sneaking and spinning, gliding and booooing are all great fun, but their favourite thing to do is giggle.

Perfect for sharing, Giggling Ghosts offers a fun, interactive story time. Bouncy rhyming text encourages children to join in with the little ghosts as they have a great time stretching, tiptoeing, jiggling and wiggling, encouraging everyone to be active and interpret the ghosts movements in their own way.

Although obviously full of ghosts, this is not really a spooky story, making it just right for sharing with younger children at Hallowe'en time. The illustrations are lovely, showing 'cute' little ghosts surrounded by sparkling dust as they glide around and even the pictures showing them peeking round gravestones are not frightening!

Children are sure to quickly identify their own favourite amongst the ghosts and follow its adventure from picture to picture as each seems to have its own personality. They might enjoy thinking up names for each one!

Sweet, gentle and fun, this lovely book would make a wonderful story time and could easily be used to inspire lots of craft activities!

Picture book / Reviewed by Sue Wilsher, teacher

Suggested Reading Age 3+

Giggling Ghosts is an interactive, humorous book which may help to avoid any spooky feelings about ghosts! This is a nice story for children to enjoy, especially around Halloween. The friendly ghosts may help ease any worries some children have about 'spooky things'. It would be a good story to enjoy as part of storytime either at home or in school with KS1 children.

It is a rhyming book which many children enjoy as they can start to predict the ending of sentences based on their knowledge of rhyming. My little boy particularly enjoyed the double page spread where the ghosts are playing in the play park.

Picture book / Reviewed by Lucy Hopkins, teacher

Suggested Reading Age 3+