Something Wickedly Weird (5 books in series)
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review 1: I liked the mysterious Darkling family. They were creepy and devious, even the little children. Upon their arrival I liked how the crows darkened the mood at Candlestick Hall giving it a sense of foreboding. My favorite line in the book was by Victor Carelli in regards to the ...
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review 1: Went ahead and read this second book in the series since even though I wasn't all that impressed with the first. Same reaction here, while there are some creative aspects, and the illustrations add to the fun, the series just seems too simple and kind of flat. The lead characte...
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review 1: A short amusing tale of a boy who inherits a house from his long lost great uncle Admiral Swift. The house is on Crampton Rock a strange little place, only reachable when the tide is out. Once he's installed in the house he discovers all sorts of secrets, about his great-uncle ...
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review 1: I read this as The Werewolf and the Ibis - which is a better title.An enjoyable opening to the Something Wickedly Weird series of children's books by author/illustrator Chris Mould who we went to see at a local library event recently. A good cast of characters (many of them disti...
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review 1: it's a great set-up: young Stanly Buggles has inherited a house from a great-uncle he didn't know he had. He gets to go off and live in his house for the summer under the watchful (but not too watchful) eye of a faithful housekeeper. The house happens to be set on a most unusu...