Fright Club by Ethan Long
Bloomsbury, 2016. ISBN 9781681190433
This is one of the cutest board books I've seen for ages. Forget
about sweet and pretty - this one is just in time for Halloween and
a fun story for little people.
The local Fright Club led by Vladimir the vampire is busily
practising their 'ghoulish faces, scary moves, chilling sounds' in
their clubhouse when there comes a knock at the door. A sweet fluffy
bunny asks if she can join the club and is promptly rejected. The
monsters continue with their very amateurish spookiness and there is
another knock at the door. This time the cute bunny is accompanied
by her foxy lawyer citing discrimination about being excluded and
pretty soon all the woodland creatures are picketing the Fright
Club. Of course eventually the monsters have to give in and let them
all join - and who knew? Those little animals can be quite scary
when they want to be!
This is just great fun with a load of good devices to talk about if
you did want to share it with older ones; speech bubbles,
onomatopoeia etc but basically it is a just a hoot for Halloween.
Check out the trailer
online.
Sue Warren