There’s a Ghost in This House

This may suit a child who enjoys gentle eeriness and visual puzzles. It offers a way to explore imagination, suggestion and the question of how we decide whether something is real.

Consider whether the child enjoys spooky uncertainty: the book includes a haunted setting, white-sheet ghosts, eerie appearances and an unresolved possibility that the apparent ghost may be the girl herself.

As you turn each transparent page, ask what the girl can see, what the reader can see, and whether the ghosts need to be literally real for the game to work.

Read it interactively rather than rushing to explain it. Pause before each overlay to predict where a ghost might appear, then discuss how the ending’s uncertainty feels.