SuitabookGhostsitters
Angie Sage
- Reading
- Try reading it together if the reader enjoys comic ghosts but may want to pause around tense or disorderly scenes. Before starting, ask what makes a haunting feel funny rather than frightening; revisit that judgement afterwards.
- Themes
- Mischief and responsibility: Araminta, Wanda and Mathilda must respond when two young poltergeists cause havoc in Spookie House, affecting the house and its resident ghosts. The book’s stance on this remains unclear.
- Belonging while adults are away: The book addresses belonging while adults are away; the detail of how it is developed remains unclear. The book leaves its stance open to more than one reading.
- Comic treatment of the uncanny: The book places friendly or troublesome supernatural beings in a house and builds events around their antics, damage and attempts to make them leave. The book presents this as ordinary or accepted within its context.
- Worth knowing
- The story includes ghosts, poltergeists, a haunted house, property disruption and a ghost character experiencing despair after a troubling discovery. The supernatural conflict is presented in comic-adventure terms, though individual reactions to spooky imagery may differ.