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Spookermarket

Spookermarket

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Summary

A frighteningly funny picture book, perfect for sharing at Halloween and beyond!

Where do werewolves get their greens?

Where do banshees buy their beans?
Where do ogres get supplies
of tasty ear-and-eyeball pies?

Welcome to the Spookermarket, where ghouls and frights shop by night. But when a mischievous genie escapes to cause chaos in the supermarket aisles, can everybody work together to outwit this troublesome customer?

A laugh-out-loud adventure from award-winning author Peter Bently and acclaimed illustrator Steph Laberis.

About the authors

Peter Bently

Peter Bently grew up in an army family and went to ten different schools. He studied languages at Oxford and worked as a journalist and non-fiction book editor before becoming a children's author when his own two children were very small. He is the author of more than sixty books, including Cats Ahoy!, illustrated by Jim Field, which won the Roald Dahl Funny Prize, and King Jack and the Dragon, illustrated by Helen Oxenbury, which was an American Library Association Notable Book of the year.
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Steph Laberis (Illustrator)

Steph is a California-based artist & RISD alumna, specializing in children's illustration and character design for animation. Her childhood spent in the woods of New England sparked her love for animals and the natural world, a favourite subject of her artwork. When she's not drawing, Steph volunteers her local wildlife hospital or spends quality time with her beloved cats, rats and mice.
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