In my chapter about Baba Yaga, Natasha tricks the old witch into relinquishing Natasha’s little brother, whom she is fattening up for dinner. Baba Yaga wasn’t always bad, just unpredictable. Who knew if she’d invite you for dinner, or to BE dinner?

Knock! Knock! Knock! Who’s There? By Phillippe Goosens didn’t just surprise me. It made me laugh out loud. At first, I worried along with Bear when knocks from suspicious characters came in the middle of the night. A ghost, an ogre, a wolf and a witch, that’s who seem to want to come in. When

By Alexis Deacon, Illustrations by Vivianne Schwartz The book starts with one rat and one piece of cheese. Rat Law says Rat 1 gets to keep it unless a bigger, or stronger, or scary, (and so on) rat wants it. You know what this leads to… a riot. Then, when Rat 1 finally gets back

Piggie Pie! is a scary plot (will Witch Gritch find the pigs and bake them into a pie?), but it’s loaded with laughs. When Gritch locates some pigs (by way of the Yellow Pages, of course), she heads to Old MacDonald’s farm. Ala “The Wizard of Oz,” she writes “Surrender Piggies!” in the sky.By the way,

Why did I include the Grandma diagram? So you could get an idea of David Walliams’ zany humor. Here’s the premise. Ben has to spend one night a week at his Granny’s. When he was little, he liked it, for Granny told rip roaring stories.Now, the only thing that “rips” is Granny. (She eats a