The Spooks - Softcover

Hawkins, Colin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0006647030 ISBN 13: 9780006647034

Publisher: Harper Collins Childs, 1999

Synopsis

Meet the Spooks -- a simply frightful family. The Spooks are a family of old ghosts who think it's a scream to do a spot of haunting in the middle of the night. While Mr Spook is out working as a travel agent organising horror holidays, the children Wilfred and Griselda and the twins Boo and Hoo, creep around the neighbourhood rattling windows and knocking on doors. But they're always home in time to hear a spooky bedtime story from Dad, before it gets light. People find them all a little bit scary, but really they are frighteningly nice. So come on in -- the family is dying to meet you! The Spooks are one family out of a range of spooky new characters created by the internationally renowned author and illustrator team, Colin and Jacqui Hawkins. Hilarious text and illustrations combine to put the giggles into Halloween for 2-5 year olds.

About this title

About the Author:

Colin Hawkins was educated at art school in the north of England and then worked as an illustrator/designer for the Daily Express before becoming an illustrator for magazines and advertising. He began to illustrate children's books in 1978 and from 1979 onwards he has created his own children's books with his wife, Jacqui.

From School Library Journal:

ea. vol: unpaged. Silver Burdett. Sept. 1985. PS $4.31. Gr 3-5 Three mundane conglomerations of jokes, cartoons, rhymes and anecdotes that are neither scary nor amusing. The brightly colored cartoons are adequate but often cluttered; the jokes are tired (``I'm dying for a bite,'' utters a vampire, for probably the millionth time). Witches is the best of the bunch; it sports a slightly subtler sense of humor than the other two. Overall, the mediocre ``facts,'' jokes and rhymes, many of which are stretched beyond their limits just to fill up space, make these books unnecessary purchases. Try Schwartz's In a Dark, Dark Room (Harper, 1984), Gantos' The Werewolf Family (Houghton, 1980; o.p.) or Ahlberg's Funnybones (Greenwillow, 1981) for a better quality of ghouls and giggles. Cathryn A. Camper, Minneapolis Public Library

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About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Collins Childs
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0006647030
• ISBN 13: 9780006647034
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 24