If there’s one thing you’ll learn in this book, it’s that the still-alives are incredibly mean to the frightfully friendly ghosties Tabithy Tumbly, Charlie Vapour, Pamela Fraidy, Rusty Chains, Agatha Draught and others. Here they are, our lovely ghosties, doing their best to befriend the still-alives with bedtime stories, and good mornings, and pleasant indoor breezes and fl ying books, and all the still-alives will do is scream and lock them in the attic! The poor ghosties are always trying to escape locked rooms and deal with a Priest who puts garlic in every room. And they never forget their manners, not for one second. In fact, they are usually too busy apologising and being overly humble about their ghostly abilities to achieve much at all.

I adored Daren King’s previous books Mouse Noses On Toast and Peter the Penguin Pioneer, and Frightfully Friendly Ghosties is an equal delight. This is a funny and quirky read for five to eight-year-olds who want to develop their reading skills with something a bit different from your average chapter book.