Spookily Good Children’s Books for Halloween 2022

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Cheese Niblets! There’s a strange ghost on the underground! Desperate for a big scoop, Geronimo decides to investigate and finds … the lingering smell of cat pee? Giant paw prints? A terrible meowing sound?! Is the ghost a giant cat, or could the mystery be hiding something more sinister?

ISBN: 9781782265290
RRP: £4.99 UK
Age: 5-7 years

“If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.”

Catherine Morland longs to be as interesting as the gothic heroines she reads about in novels. When she is invited on her first trip away from home, she leaps at the chance. New friendships and flirting lead her to the imposing Northanger Abbey, where Catherine discovers that a little imagination can be a dangerous thing.

ISBN: 9781782264781
RRP: £6.99 UK
Age: 7-9 years

Who can help a mean old man to love Christmas? How about a ghost? (…or three!)

Scrooge’s heart is colder than snow, he’s richer than half the banks in England and meaner than, well, everyone. But when three seriously spooky ghosts turn up to take him on an adventure through time, he soon learns that being cold isn’t cool. Can he change his ways before it’s too late?

ISBN: 9781782264897
RRP: £6.99 UK
Age: 7-9 years

Geronimo sets off for Ratoff in spooky Transratania, a garlic-fuelled town full of mystery. Even the inhabitants of Ratoff Castle are strange. Maybe it’s the way they sleep during the day, or the blood-red drink they’re always sipping on, but there’s something not quite right about them… Who are these mice? Will Geronimo survive the night?

ISBN: 9781782263623
RRP: £4.99 UK
Age: 5-7 years

All Merlin knows is the village where he mixes potions for wary customers, and dreams strange dreams that sometimes come true. Then a mysterious hooded man appears, seeking a boy with no mortal father, and Merlin is taken far away, to a crumbling tower and a ruthless king.

To a place where his is not the only magic.

ISBN: 9781782265047
RRP: £6.99 UK
Age: 5-7 years