Little Wolf’s Haunted Hall for Small Horrors - Hardcover

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Ian Whybrow’s many popular successes range from picture books to novels for older children. Best known for his original humour, he always writes with adult readers as well as young ones in mind. He has a brilliant ear for voices, and takes pride in the fact that his work reads aloud very well. ‘I loved being read to as a child,’ he says. ‘And I loved the sense that my parents were enjoying it too. For me, that’s the acid test for any book – that there’s something in it for everyone to enjoy.

Tony Ross was born in London in 1938. He went to art school in Liverpool and has since worked as a typographer for design and advertising agencies. His cartoons have appeared in Punch, Town, Time and Tide and the News of the World. His first book Hugo and the Wicked Winter was published in 1972. Tony has since written over 100 books and illustrated over 2000! Two of his creations, Towser and The Little Princess have been turned into TV series.
Tony lives in Wales.

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Haunted Hall School,
Frettnin Forest,
Beastshire.

DEAR MUM AND DAD,
Why do you say I have let the pack down being poor again? Because who put rockets under my safe and blew it up into small smithers? Who made my gold go raining all over Frettnin Forest so nobody can find it now? Answer, your darling baby pet Smellybreff. But you never blame him , do you?
But now, listen to 'this' news, it is good. Yeller has just made up a fine advert saying:

ARE YOU JUST A SMALL WEAK FLUFFBALL?
THEN BE A PUPIL AT HAUNTED HALL.
LEARN SECRET POWERS FROM OUR BIGBAD GHOST
LIKE HOW TO POP UP ALL OF A SUDDENLY LIKE TOAST
SO COME TO-DEE
AND BRING A LARGE FEE
DO NOT DELAY-EE.

ARRROOO, look out Richness, we are after you again!

Yours chestoutly,
L WOLF ESQUIRE

ARRROOOO!

More thrilly times with Little Wolf

When Uncle Bigbad's ghost appears, he is just as BIG and BAD as ever. Little Wolf and Yeller are determined that Uncle's spirit will be the teacher of ghosty powers and star attraction at their new scary school for brute beasts, where lessons will include Walking Through Walls and Shocking for Beginners. With Stubbs Crow teaching Spooksuit Making and Flying; Smellybreff Wolf being a Small Horror and Little and Yeller being Co-Heads, Haunted Hall is definitely going to be the spookiest School in the World!

But will Uncle Bigbad agree? And if he does, will he frighten away all the small horrors?
YOU BET HE WILL! Little wolf must find some small horrors who won't be scared. With Stubbs Crow (and his two new tail feathers) he travels over Frettnin Forest, the Grim Mountains, across the Parching Plain and into Grimshire to find a brute beast brave enough to stand up to Uncle's powers.

'Little Wolf's Book of Badness' won an U.K.R.A. book award for 'making a substantial contribution to children's literacy' and the TSB Birmingham Children's Book Award. It has been translated into eight different languages and won the prestigious Di Cento Prize in Italy as best children's book of the year.

Little Wolf's letters from Haunted Hall will delight anyone with a sense of fun, young or old, especially those who have already enjoyed the prize-winning 'Little Wolf's Book of Badness' and 'Little Wolf's Diary of Daring Deeds'.

Tony Ross was born in London in 1938. He has worked as an art director at an advertising agency, a graphic designer, a cartoonist, a teacher, a film maker and as a Senior Lecturer in Art at Manchester Polytechnic – as well as illustrating over 250 books! Tony and his wife Zoe live in Macclesfield, Cheshire and have four children.