Book details
Rebecca Green - Author
A warm, imaginative friendship book that treats caring for a ghost as an everyday responsibility. It combines playful instructions and gross-out food details with a broader portrait of companionship lasting through major changes in life.
Book Analysis
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Sign in for personalised guidanceHow the book presents it: Care is treated warmly and as part of a lasting friendship.
Talk about: What kinds of care make a friendship feel mutual and dependable?
How the book presents it: The friendship is framed as continuing through changing circumstances and stages of life.
Talk about: If a friendship lasts through change, what might need to change with it?
How the book presents it: Death is presented as poignant and connected with continuing friendship, rather than described only as frightening.
Talk about: How might remembering someone help a friendship feel present after loss?
It may offer a gentle way to talk about kindness, attentiveness and enduring friendship, while inviting children to enjoy absurd details. Its illustrations are described as sophisticated, limited in palette and rich in small visual details.
Some children may want preparation for supernatural imagery, deliberately disgusting foods, and the closing reference to a gravestone. The book also reaches old age and death, though the emotional effect of these scenes is not fully established.
What does your child notice about looking after someone over a lifetime? If the final gravestone image prompts questions, how does your family talk about death, remembrance and friendship continuing after loss?
Read it as a playful guide rather than a factual account. Pause for the snack and care instructions, invite discussion of the illustrations, and decide beforehand whether to linger on the final image or explain it simply.
Theme indicators describe how the book presents a topic; they are not a verdict on the whole book or your family's values. Confidence reflects how much book-specific material was checked. Only part of the book information was available, so some details remain unconfirmed.
How to Make Friends With a Ghost - Andersen Press
Limited information
Checked: 20 September 2026.
Relevant to: Friendship as care
HOW TO MAKE FRIENDS WITH A GHOST
Limited information
Checked: 20 September 2026.
Relevant to: Friendship as care; Companionship across change; Death and continued connection
Benefits, discussion questions and reading approaches are suggestions. Your knowledge of your child remains part of the decision.
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