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Jeffers, Oliver

There's a Ghost In This House

80 pp. | Philomel | November, 2021 | Trade ISBN 978-0-593-46618-6 $27.99
(2) PS A child with numerous questions welcomes readers at the door of a stately, many-chimneyed mansion: will we help find the rumored ghosts in the house? Have we ever seen any? Do we know where to look? Viewers explore the house with the narrator, who peeks into rooms and closets; searches the library, a chimney, and the attic; and more. Jeffers features monochromatic images of rooms from architectural reference books and furniture catalogs, onto which he draws the narrator, who pops off the page with jade-colored skin and hair and in a dress with vivid chartreuse stripes. Readers turn translucent pages adorned with paintings of ghosts that reveal, on the next spread's verso, the location of the ghosts the narrator asks us to find: cue excited giggles as viewers spot specters near, but always hiding from, the narrator. The ghosts, depicted as white sheets with holes for eyes, are endearing and playful (gleefully jumping on the bed while the child looks under it), never too frightening or threatening to children, who are in control of the page-turns--and, therefore, of the ghost-sightings. Delightfully, we're also told that a collective noun for this group is "a fraid of ghosts."
Reviewer: Julie Danielson | Horn Book Magazine Issue: January, 2022

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