The Wolves in the Walls

Oh, my gosh! This book is so scary it will make you scream until you laugh, and then you will cheer for Lucy who is smarter than her mother, father, brother and all of the wolves, in or outside of the walls.

Gaiman has done it again, made all of us grownups wish he were older and had written these books when we were kids.  Dave McKean’s in-​​your-​​face illus­tra­tions dom­inate the pages with an almost deli­cious scariness (that’s jam, not blood) that today’s children will rec­ognize as funny and not at all threat­ening, some­thing that the parent or grand­parent reading the book out loud will take a bit longer to understand.

Best of all is Gaiman’s soft spot for little girls who are pretty darned swift at fig­uring things out way before the rest of the world.