If one can laugh at the monsters and ghouls, one is half-way to conquering fears. This marvellous collection of nasties should have every child giggling in no time, and a number of specific fears have their own poems: monsters, bullies, ogres, etc. There are rather more ordinary subjects as well, but the theme is horrors of all sorts - and the pictures are fantastic in the true sense of the word.
A collection of 55 illustrated poems about ghouls, ghosts, beasts and weirdos featuring characters like The Wild Bill Hickock Bird, The Doom Merchant, Sophie Charlotte Wyatt-Wyatt and the unfortunate Professor Blinker. There are also poems about the fiendish secrets of the Jekyll and Hyde Park, what an ogre eats for his breakfast and some very human monsters as well. Colin McNaughton has written and illustrated three other volumes of verse, There's an Awful Lot of Weirdos in our Neighbourhood, Who's Been Sleeping in my Porridge? and Santa Claus is Superman.
He has won prizes for his previous work, Have You Seen Who's Just Moved in Next Door to Us won the 1991 Emil/Kurt Maschler Award, Jolly Roger, won the 1989 British Children's Book Award, and Watch Out for the Giant-Killers and was shortlisted for the 1991 Earthworm Award.