Bumps in the Night (Funnybones)

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His best friends are Squishington, a blue monster that lived in the bathroom's toilet cistern; and Molly Coddle, a Frankenstein's monster-like rag doll belonging to the boy's sister who acts as the straight man to the others' crazy antics. I would not recommend reading this story to young children (under seven) because it often references ghosts and other actions that I believe could frighten children. Andre Amstutz (Illustrator) Andre Amstutz studied art and design at Brighton School of Art and worked in animation as well as advertising.

Only a small number of new grapheme-phoneme correspondences are introduced in each book, allowing teachers to select exactly the right book for each child’s current reading level, from the very earliest stages of learning to read.There are quick and funny ghost stories written for beginning to read children as a first chapter book.

Thrust into a magical adventure involving bloodcurdling monsters, a supernatural silk cotton tree, and an endless maze, Rika must defeat the fearsome jumbie king to save her family and new friends.i'd forgotten all about this book till it was rtned at our circ desk, and i recognized the front cover; turns out this was one of the first books ever read to me when i was like 2 or 3yrs old!

Allan Ahlberg presents a series of short adventures, all of which have one outcome - "Send for Doctor Bones! The text flows in multiple directions providing lots of twists and teasers for players at the beginning, however, at the same time the overall plot and narrative is tight enough to keep the players on track with each adventure without railroading them into particular or singular outcomes – although there is one conclusion – there are many roads in getting their just the path becomes ever more narrow.

Janet sadly died in 1994, but Allan has gone on to work with other illustrators and is still producing lots of new books. They consist of homicide detectives and coroner’s personnel charged with looking into violent and suspicious deaths.

Bumpy is a small green, purple-warted monster living under the bed of a ten-year-old boy, where he eats dirty socks and dust bunnies as if they were delicacies.But it is still dark in the cellar so they decide to paint it white and, you can imagine what happens, they can't see each other, go bump once more and again it is "Send for Doctor Bones! Particularly enjoyed the page filled with multicoloured skeleton dogs, although the random DIY section did make the story feel a little incoherent. To Sleep Perchance to Burp" — The Boy cannot get to sleep because the monster under the bed makes noise. Beauty and the Bump" — Bumpy falls for an antique china doll under glass, who becomes the Princess in his fairy-tale dream. The creepy middle grade debut from USA Today bestselling author Amalie Howard in which a girl stays with her grandmother in Trinidad for the summer and discovers that she comes from a long line of powerful witches.