Other children’s books for Halloween and beyond

The last post of the day is for the children’s books we were sent that didn’t quite fit into the other categories!

Stefan Gates’ Incredible Edibles

Incredible Edibles is a fabulous collection of incredibly cool recipes come science experiments. Stefan Gates takes an exploratory and scientific look at food.

How do you make a bum sandwich? Can you power a rocket with food? What’s the most dangerous food on earth? Would you eat deep-fried scorpion? Packed full of mad recipes to cook for your friends, kitchen science projects to try at home and completely bonkers food facts, this book will take you on a food adventure from breakfast right through to supper.

It’s in this Halloween Book Week because it contains spooky recipes, such as Maggoty-brained pumpkin heads and Blood soup with eyeballs. Quick! Run out and buy a copy to use tomorrow!

Stuart the Bug Eating Man

Stuart the Bug Eating Man is a fun and gross book that will appeal to lots of children. It’s told in a very rhythmic rhyme and has fantastic illustrations (the whole book is written and illustrated by Calvin Innes. The illustrations are all black and white, though, which younger children often find off-putting (in my experience, anyway) or just want to colour in!

Under My Hat

Under My Hat is a collection of short stories and poetry about witches. We only received it a few days ago, so I haven’t managed to read it all, but the ones I have read are excellent. Jonathan Strahan collected the stories together for his two daughters, who are big witch fans.

Young witches, old witches, witches’ dogs, witches’ curses. They are all here, in their diversity and richness, lurking amongst the pages of this treasury, just waiting to be set free to allow their magic to fill your imagination.

Many writers have contributed to the collection, including Ellen Kushner, Garth Nix, Holly Black and Neil Gaiman. I can’t wait to finish the collection.

Come back on Friday to read Jonathan’s tips on writing a short story.