How to Make Friends With a Ghost
Published on 6. September 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
40 pages
978-1-78344-680-3 (ISBN)
Description
What do you do when you meet a ghost? One: Provide the ghost with some of its favourite snacks, like mud tarts and earwax truffles. Two: Tell your ghost bedtime stories (ghosts love to be read to). Three: Make sure no one mistakes your ghost for whipped cream or a marshmallow when you aren't looking! If you follow the essential tips in How to Make Friends With a Ghost, you'll learn how a ghost can be the perfect companion for rest of your life and beyond...
"Green's picture-book debut is a guidebook that will be useful for anyone lucky enough to meet a ghost... A solid guidebook to shelve with similar tomes on caring for monsters, trolls, fairies, dragons, and the like." Kirkus Reviews
"[A] tender little love story." The Globe and Mail
"Green's picture-book debut is a guidebook that will be useful for anyone lucky enough to meet a ghost... A solid guidebook to shelve with similar tomes on caring for monsters, trolls, fairies, dragons, and the like." Kirkus Reviews
"[A] tender little love story." The Globe and Mail
Reviews / Votes
"Rebecca Green's debut picture book is a delightful, sweet friendship book with a beautiful, retro-inspired illustration and stylish palette with plenty of funny little details to find." * BookTrust * "[A] wonderful, whimsical guide" * Sunday Express * "A cute Hallowe'en read for ages 5-8" * Inis Reading Guide * "Endearing... perfectly timed for Halloween" * Early Years Educator *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Children/juvenile
Interest Age: From 3 to 8 years
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 228 mm
Thickness: 7 mm
Weight
183 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78344-680-3 (9781783446803)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Rebecca Green is an illustrator, painter and self-proclaimed make-believe maker. She is the illustrator of The Unicorn in the Barn, From Far Away and The Glass Town Game. She works mainly in guache, pencil and ink, as an illustrator for children's and young adult books, magazines and galleries. Some of her clients include HarperCollins, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, The Wall Street Journal and Flow Magazine. How to Make Friends with a Ghost is her first picture book.