Genre
Picture books for children
Tone
Amusing
Illustration
Minimally colored
Subject
Cats
Child witches
Ghosts
Girls
Haunted houses
Laundry
Moving, Household
Washing machines
Witches

This review originally published at The Children's Book and Media Review

A little girl goes to live in an old house at the edge of town, but the house is haunted. It’s a good thing that the girl isn’t just any girl. She’s also a witch! She knows how to catch ghosts, which is a good thing because she has quite a few that she needs to catch. She puts them in the washing machine and then hangs them on the clothesline to dry. Afterwards, they become great curtains, tablecloths, and blankets so that they can all live happily ever after.

This book has a great mix of Halloween fun that combines scariness with sweetness. The illustrations are all orange, black, and white, creating a Halloween feel with the contrast. The text is very simple, but the illustrations make the book more amusing. Some people might have a problem with how the witch transforms the ghosts to suit her needs, but the ghosts look smiling and happy in their new roles. This book should please even very young Halloween fans. ( )

A little ghost goes through a house and at each turn a new scary monster joins his group. At the end of the book the monsters meet up with the scariest monster of all to them which is a little boy.

A witch and her cat move into a haunted house and creatively find ways to make use of the ghosts in their new home. This easy read is illustrated with only three colors: orange, black, and white, which make counting easy to integrate for emergent readers. ( )

This book is about a girl or goes to a haunted house in her town. She turns out to be a witch and while shes at the house she catches all the ghosts there and turns them into things like curtains, tablecloths, and blankets. The book ends by showing the girl asleep in the house with text saying "happily ever after". I thought this book was average for a variety of reasons. For one, the illustrations were relatively plain. The book only uses orange, black, and white to go along with the Halloween theme of the book but it's rather boring looking at the same colors for each page. Secondly, I didn't think the writing was very engaging. The writing kind of had a monotone style to it with nothing really exciting or surprising happening. For example, in one line it reads, "I hope there are more!" (talking about ghosts) then the next line reads, "and there were." Then the book just suddenly moves to the girl going to the kitchen and to the washing machine without any real explanation of why. I thought the plot was rather boring and didn't give any feeling of suspense or tension while reading. ( )