Librarian teacher discusses children's books. Students are encouraged to contribute their own book review or short summary of fiction or nonfiction books. This blog is of interest to 3rd through 6th graders.

The Shadows

Suppose you were looking at a painting and something inside the picture moved! What would you do? Olive and her parents just moved into this old Victorian mansion where all the rooms still have the contents of the previous owners. As Olive goes exploring she notices that the paintings are stuck to the wall and they don't budge. Weird glasses enable her to enter into the paintings. And the talking cats aren't much help either or are they? For a mysteriously scary (not too), sometimes creepy adventure, start The Books of Elsewhere series by Jacqueline West. If you look at the photo above, you will see this book in Katie's hands. Ask her what she thought about The Shadows.