The House with Nobody in It

Children will argue with the book, laugh at the words, poke their fingers through the windows and doors, search the house’s rooms and inventory its objects, try to color in the book’s blank spaces or add a chimney, prop it open like an actual haunted house. * The New Yorker *
a master class in taking the simplest of children’s-book formats—a sturdy, thick-paged board book—and creating a story of haunting elegance for readers ages 3 to 7. -- Katie Daniels * The Wall Street Journal *

A grown-up reading this with a child will enjoy the pantomime of disputing the existence of anything else on the pages. They will also be best placed to judge the child’s appetite for spook – and the implication that the house’s inhabitant may have passed away – with the wide-eyed ghost hovering somewhere between unsettling and adorable, depending on who you ask (adorable, says this reviewer!).
The perfect read for autumn and winter evenings, and ideal for fans of This Is Not My Hat, There’s a Ghost in this House, and Funnybones.

-- Phoebe Demeger * LoveReading4Kids *
The illustrations, the paper engineering, the haiku-like text of this book are simple, spooky genius. -- Ron Charles (Washington Post Critic) * Substack *