Hardly Haunted
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- $14.99
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
From the bestselling creator of Not Quite Narwhal comes a delightfully spooky story about an old house who wants to be a home…even if her new family isn’t what she expected.
House has a problem.
She’s a little spooky. She’s a little cobwebby. Oh, no! What if she’s haunted?
She’s not sure, but…her hinges creak. Her pipes bang. And on windy days, the branches scritch-scratch at her windows. She tries to hold her breath and be as still as possible. If she’s on her best behavior, maybe a family will move in.
How will House ever find a family that doesn’t mind being haunted?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A little sympathy for the eerie purple mansion for sale on the hill, please—she suspects that she may be haunted. "I'm a house... People are supposed to live in me," she worries. "Who would want to live in a haunted house?" As a wide-eyed black cat bounces through her cobweb-punctuated rooms, the expressive protagonist (in Sima's cartoonishly ominous digital art, half-moon windows serve as eyes, and other architectural details provide hints of facial features) tries to suppress her creaky doors, squeaky floors, and other signs of hauntedness: "If I'm on my very best behavior... maybe no one will notice how spooky I am." But after inadvertently producing a veritable concert of ghostly sounds, she realizes that "she liked being noisy. Maybe she liked being haunted," and that what she really needs is a family who can "help this haunted house become a haunted home." Sima creates a lovely twist on finding one's place in the world, told with a light touch and plenty of spooky onomatopoeia. Ages 4–8.
