Iggy is in a city full of ghosts, he lives in a hotel in Los Angeles and thinks of the ghosts as nothing significant. Her friends Neddie and Seamus are all for the ghost life as well, and these three friends make a great team on the adventure that begins throughout this story. The three frien...
So SILLY! Iggy is the child of an old-timey movie star and a psychiatrist who believes in letting kids do whatever they like. She lives in an old Hollywood hotel that is full of ghosts. Her friends, who attend a military academy, also are friendly with ghosts. When the kids notice the ghosts ...
Nick and Maxine live in a tall apartment building in a neighborhood of tall buildings. When they notice a friendly cottage with a little yard and picket fence in the middle of all the large buildings, the siblings have to find a way inside. The little cottage reveals Mrs. Noodlekugel, a friendl...
I'm generally not one to classify picture books as "sweet." But I'm going to make an exception. This is one of the sweetest little picture books I've read in a while. While looking for food one morning, bear discovers something "orange and long and pointy and had green bushy leaves at one end....
I liked the hard ink lines mixed with the softer watercolors. Not to mention the story (a chicken escaping from being butchered who meets and joins a flock of wild parrots in New York City. The icing on top is that all of the dialogue is in English and Yiddish (for the chicken and farmer) or Sp...
We were getting close to the shore. We were tired and hungry, and our hands were sore. "Travel by coracle is the worst," Neddie said. "Who invented them, anyway?" "Well, the word coracle comes from the Welsh cwrwgl," Big Audrey said. "But they go back thousands of years, and similar boats turn up...
"We first thought of coming to see you because we had some funny experiences with Spookhuizen," he said. "The Van Vreemdeling mansion," Chicken Nancy corrected him. "It was never called Spookhuizen, which means 'haunted house,' when people lived there." "The Van Vreemdeling mansion," Professor Ta...
I screamed. “I’m only eleven years old, and some of this stuff has got me very upset!” “There’s no need to get excited, Victor,” Charlie said. “Now just tell me what’s on your mind.” “Lizards,” I said. “Lizards are on my mind, and pod people, and yo...