Children’s books that are spookily perfect for Halloween

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Get in the mood for spooky season with these fab-boo-lous stories for children from Little Tiger Press.

With spooktacular stories for young and older children, these books are a magical treat.

What's Scarier than a Spider?

Written by Becky Davies and illustrated by Amelia Best, What’s Scarier than a Spider? (RRP £7.99 ISBN 9781801044783) is a fun book with a quirky twist.

A game of peekaboo – but not as you know it!

Spiders are SCARY, but they may just have met their match . . . Lift the transformative flaps to reveal ever BIGGER and BADDER characters in a series of hilarious showdowns. Children will hoot with laughter as they transform the seemingly sweet critters into truly terrific terrors! With bold, quirky art and a giant fold-out flap on the final page, this is the perfect book for amusing little ones.

Think you know which creature’s scarier? Think again!

This lovely board book is vibrant with colourful characters that little ones will love. The hilarious read will have them cackling with joy and laughter as they meet the creepy creatures.

You're My Little Baby Boo

From the range of ‘You’re My Little…’ books, You’re My Little Baby Boo (RRP £7.99 ISBN 9781838915537) is written by Nicola Edwards and illustrated by Natalie Marshall.

Celebrate your little baby boo this Halloween with this sweetly spooky rhyming board book. With chunky pages for little hands and die-cut parent and baby characters, this is the perfect seasonal bedtime read.

With raised board pieces and die cuts, little ones will love this chunky board book.

Cute and colourful, this boo-tiful board book filled with adorable characters and lovely words. Perfect for little boo’s, this book is definitely a treat!

Dreamweavers: Night of the Scary Fairies

Meet the ultimate Dream Team in this dreamy book written by Annabelle Sami and illustrated by Forrest Burdett. 

Dreamweavers: Night of the Scary Fairies (RRP £6.99 ISBN: 9781788956000) is the first book in a fun, fresh and exciting new series, for fans of Laura Ellen Anderson, Star Friends, Peanut Jones and Witch for a Week.

When Tito becomes friends with the mysterious new girl at school, Neena, she introduces him to the world of Dreamweaving. Soon Tito and Neena are going on adventures every night – exploring dreams where quirky creatures called jinn roam. And when their classmates start acting strangely, they realise someone else is using Dreamweaving to cause chaos. Can Tito and Neena stop them before the dream world takes over the waking world?

This enchanting book will let older children drift off into the land of dreams and adventures.

Flip Flap Halloween

This spooky flip flap board book by Becky Davies and illustrated by Mike Moran is a spooktacular delight for younger children.

Flip Flap Halloween (RRP £8.99 ISBN 9781801044912) is a vibrant, interactive book perfect for Halloween.

Flip flap, who is that? 

Turn the shaped split pages to lift the lid of Dracula’s coffin, peer past cobwebs and reveal your favourite Halloween characters feature by feature. Little ones will love to guess who’s hiding as they uncover a howling yowling werewolf, a blinking winking monster, and other spooky creatures. Open the page segments in any order and delight in the text that transforms for read-aloud fun! 

The fun and colourful book has brilliant illustrations and a joyous Halloween themed tale that will get young readers squealing with delight as they adventure through the flip flap board book filled with tiny terrors and fun twists.

I'm Not Scared, You Are!

Written by Patricia Hegarty and illustrated by Thomas Elliott, I’m not scared, you are! (RRP £12.99 ISBN 9781838915766) is a rhymtastic creepy adventure tale. 

The wild wind is howling,

there's a creak on the stair.

Are you feeling brave?

Follow me if you dare!

Join a cast of creepy creatures in this journey through a night packed with ghosts and ghouls, toads and trolls and bats and black cats! With 24 super-spooky sounds – are YOU brave enough? 

With a fun rhyming text and 24 sounds, this is a spooktacular adventure!

The book is beautifully illustrated with a haunted, eerie vibe and has an enjoyable story that is packed full of spooky sounds, joyous rhymes and sentences that effortlessly roll of the tongue in an enchanting way. 

Diary of an Accidental Witch: Stage Fright

A magical book for older children aged 8-12, Diary of an Accidental Witch: Stage Fright (RRP £6.99 ISBN: 9781788956086) by Perdita & Honor Cargill and illustrated by Katie Saunders is a fun story ideal for Halloween.

When Bea’s class is tasked with putting on the school play, she is excited. Her friends are nothing if not dramatic, and now her magic is getting stronger, perhaps she can use that create some special effects!

But before long the drama takes over the school – with overenthusiastic set design, nervous performers and transformation mishaps. It’s time for Bea and her friends to put their team work to the test and put on an unFROGettable performance…

A perfect potion of magic and mischief, DIARY OF AN ACCIDENTAL WITCH is THE WORST WITCH meets TOM GATES.

Make Halloween a special magical adventure with this spelltastic tale.

Enjoy Halloween with these spooktacular books from Little Tiger Press.

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One Hundred Steps: The Story of Captain Sir Tom Moore. 

One Hundred Steps: The Story of Captain Sir Tom Moore (RRP £12.99) is a hardback, audio and ebook published by Puffin. Written by Captain Tom Moore and beautifully illustrated by Adam Larkum it is a wonderful book for young readers. 

It tells the inspirational story of the man who walked 100 laps of his garden during the pandemic and captured the heart of a nation in unprecedented times.  

 

One Hundred Steps is a heart-warming story about adventure, helping people, family and never giving up, exemplified by Captain Tom as he takes us on a journey through key moments in his incredible life! From his early childhood spent roaming the Yorkshire Moors, through to his service in World War Two, his huge Guinness World Record breaking achievement of raising the largest sum ever for an individual charity walk (over £39 million) and his subsequent Knighthood.  

Captain Sir Tom said:

“When I was doing my walk, I had so many wonderful messages from young children telling me to keep going and doing their own challenges. They inspired me. The first step is always the hardest, but unless you take that first step, you’ll never finish. I hope that children love this book. I hope grandparents read it to them. I hope parents share the message with their children. With the future in their hands, tomorrow will be a good day.”

 

Full of positive messages, it’s the perfect story for parents and grandparents to give children hope this Christmas and also a lovely keepsake item to cherish to mark these extraordinary times! The book is full of the wisdom that Captain Sir Tom has gleaned over his one hundred years – that anyone can do or be anything they want, that we can achieve so much more when we come together, and that tomorrow will be a good day. Messages of hope that children, in fact, we all need, this Christmas.

Little Tiger Press Christmas books

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As we are a bookish family and love Christmas one of favourite Christmas traditions is to read Christmas books in the weeks leading up to Christmas. Whilst we already have a hamper overflowing with cherished Christmas books we’ve collected over the years, we always like to add new Christmas books  to our beloved collection. This year we are getting into the Christmas spirit with Little Tiger Press.

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Christmas with Carlton Kids

Written by author Stella Caldwell, Countdown to Christmas (RRP £12.99) is a hardback, pop up book available from the Carlton Kids range of books on the Carlton Books website. 

Glitter! - Little Tiger Press book review

Little Tiger Press have recently published a hilarious new book from author Stella J Jones (The Very Grumpy Day) and illustrator Judi Abbot (Train!) - Glitter!

Christmas books with Little Tiger Press

As a family who loves books and have little bookworm children books are an integral part of our daily lives. As we all love books so much and the boys enjoy their daily stories, we tend to enjoy seasonal books at various times of the year. Now that we are in December and Christmas is fast approaching the time has come to adorn the bookshelves with festive books.

Thanks to Little Tiger Press we have some new festive books to add to our collection this year.

Peekaboo books - Little Tiger Press.

Our love of books has once again been quenched by Little Tiger Press and their upcoming new books from the Peekaboo collection.

To be published on the 10th March 2016 are 2 new books – Peekaboo 123 and Peekaboo A to Z. Aimed at little ones aged 1-4 years and fun books by illustrator Gareth Lucas.

Both books are equally beautiful, with the fabulous illustrations from the talented Gareth Lucas teaming brilliantly with the humours alliterative text. The board books are chunky with thick pages which are ideal for little hands to hold and turn, with both books featuring large sturdy flaps.

To Baby, With Love books.

As we love books and enjoy imparting our love of the written word to our children both Lee and I are passionate about reading to and introducing books to little ones from a young age. Books are part of our daily life and were introduced to Bug and now Jelly Bean when only month’s old. From early on reading stories to our little ones became a lovely time for bonding and introducing them to books, words and stories.

Reading to Bug from when he was month’s old is something we have all enjoyed and now at nearly 5 he is a little bookworm. He still loves storytime with us and is relishing learning to read himself.

Now that we have a young baby in the house again our bookshelf is once again filling with baby books which sit nicely next to Bug’s books for pre-schoolers and young children.

Thanks to Little Tiger Press Jelly Bean has a lovely new set of baby books to fill his space on the bookshelf.

In February 2016 Little Tiger Press are publishing 4 new titles in the To Baby, With Love series – Wishes For Baby, Peekaboo Baby!, Hello Baby!, and Goodnight Baby!

Train! – Little Tiger Press book.

As I’ve previously mentioned Bug is a little bookworm. He loves nothing more than snuggling up with a book, or a big pile of books as is often the case. As he loves books so much he always gets super excited when Little Tiger Press send him a book.

The latest book that arrived through the letter box for Bug from Little Tiger Press was a board book called Train!

Written by Judi Abbot the book Train! is an award winning title that has previously been available only in paperback, but by popular demand it is now available as a cute little board book.

World Book Day 2015.

As Bug loves dressing up he has loved today when he dressed up to celebrate World Book Day.

He was over the moon about dressing up to go to school today, dressing up as his favourite character from his favourite book. For his school #WorldBookDay costume when the whole school embraced the wonderful world of books Bug decided to dress up as a cute little alien as a dedication to one of his favourite books “Aliens in Underpants Save the World”.

Little Snappers Pop Up Books by Little Tiger Press.

Snip Snap Pop Up Fun and Cheep Cheep Pop Up Fun.

As Bug is a little bookworm and loves snuggling up for story time with mummy or daddy, he is always very excited it when he gets a new book. Recently his excitement was at an all-time high when he received a parcel from Little Tiger Press with two shiny new books for him to enjoy.

Out this February from Little Tiger Press are two new books from the Little Snappers series – Snip Snap Pop Up Fun and Cheep Cheep Pop Up Fun.

Halloween Books from Little Tiger Press.

At the grand old age of 3 and a half years Bug is starting to take notice of Halloween goodies in stores. Whilst Bug is a little fearful of the very scary Halloween decorations and outfits he loves the kiddy friendly and fun fancy dress outfits and decorations.  He is also taking a strong interest in the yummy Halloween themed treats that adorn the shelves in the shops.

With Bug starting to take more of an interest in the fun of Halloween and being a keen little bookworm he was delighted when Mr Postman recently arrived one morning with a couple of Halloween themed books that had swiftly made their way to us from Little Tiger Press.

The Quick - Lauren Owen #TheQuick @TheAegoliusClub

 

You are not yet permitted, reader, to know the secrets of The Quick.

For now, please make do with the following – 

“You will travel to Victorian England, and there, in the wilds of Yorkshire, you will meet a brother and sister alone in the world, a pair bound by tragedy. You will, in time, enter the rooms of London’s mysterious Aegolius Club – a society of the richest, most ambitious men in England. And at some point, we cannot say when, a trapdoor will open, the contours of reality will change, and the secrets of The Quick will reveal themselves.”