It’s coming up to that spooky time of year again – Halloween! The darker, chiller nights ensure that curling up on the sofa or in the safety of your bed makes Halloween reading fantastic frightful fun. When it comes to spooky reading children’s picture books offer an irresistible blend of playful light-hearted chills and hearty laughs, making them perfect for young readers eager to dip their toes into the world of the supernatural and paranormal. With everything from grinning pumpkins to giggling ghosts, these fearfully fun stories provide a perfect balance gentle scares with vibrant illustrations, ensuring that the spooky season feels more delightful than daunting. The best titles weave in lessons about friendship, courage and creativity, all while celebrating the mischievous fun of dressing up and trick-or-treating. And one fun Halloween read is My Ghost Needs a New Bum!
My Ghost Needs a New Bum! is a 32-page Halloween-themed picture book (part of the New Bum series) written by Dawn McMillan and Illustrated by Ross Kinnaird. Aimed at children aged 3–7, this light-hearted tale follows a sad ghost and his friend on a quest to replace his broken bottom. The story combines rhythmic verse with slapstick humour, inviting young readers to join in the fun as they help the ghost search high and low for a new backside.
Well it’s Halloween – that time of year when the ghosts come out (or are least noticed more – probably because the white bedsheets are missing) and one Ghost is having some bum trouble that is getting him down. He has lost his “Boo” and his “spook”, his bum can be droopy, bumpy and lumpy. But his Super-Friend is on hand and tries to help him find a new bum – and has plenty of ideas: a skeleton bum, a train bum and even a dinosaur bum! And eventually they do find a new one, but what one will Ghost choose?
Overall, My Ghost Needs a New Bum is a fantastically funny story, children will love it – and there is nothing scary within its rhyming text. With its simple vocabulary in short rhyming sentences young readers will love the story of the ghosts predicament and his friends efforts to help him come up with a new bum.
And to help get across the humour, the illustrations burst with a fun vibrant Halloween atmosphere. Each page features bold colours, ghostly scenarios and lots of new fun ghostly bottoms. The bum swaps are depicted in playful detail.
My Ghost Needs a New Bum! Is an excellent non-scary Halloween tale, a story of friendship rather than scares – it genuinely tickles the funny bone with more chuckles than chills. Full of vibrant full-colour artwork on every page that complements the even funnier rhyming text, My Ghost Needs a New Bum! makes an enchanting addition to any Halloween bookshelf.
Rating: 5/5
RRP: £7.99 (Paperback) / £3.79 (Kindle)
Available to buy from Amazon here.
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