Princess Poppy: The Haunted Holiday

Dec 27, 2024 4:26 AM

Author:Janey Louise Jones

A brand-new story in the best-selling Princess Poppy series with gorgeous coloured pages!

Poppy and Honey are going on holiday to France to stay with Honey's parents in an enormous castle called Chateau Lafayette. They can't wait. It is the first time Poppy has ever been on an aeroplane and it is also the first time she has ever stayed in a castle. It is all so exciting!

But when they arrive everything is not quite as it seems - there are locked doors, their things are mysteriously moved, a swing in the grounds is swinging with no one on it, they find a map of secret passages and they're sure they've seen a ghost in the woods.

Join Poppy and Honey on their spooky French adventure and find out who is haunting their holiday!

Reviews

Poppy has graduated from picture books into these reassuring, well-observed, read-alone stories about the nature of friendship and a small girl's hopes and fears

—— Glasgow Herald

"a bitter-sweet, piercing account of a childhood in Borneo"

—— TES

'The beauty of the book is the subtlety and the insightful way the bigger picture of the after effects of the war and the colonial experience are interwoven into the portrait of a growing girl'

—— The Guardian

'A richly atmospheric tale. . . Geras conveys the intensity of childhood experience with great skill . . . '

—— Sunday Times

'Beautifully crafted'

—— Sunday Telegraph

The book was very good and sad in places

—— Education Otherwise

Two worlds conflate in this evocative and moving novel about the healing power of memory.

—— Oxford Times

Geras conveys well the difficulties of relating to a colonial community and being the new child...

—— Books for Keeps

This is a substantial novel suitable for readers of 13+

—— Inis

Bright and very descriptive . . .this book will stay with you forever

—— TBK mag

It has a slightly slow start but soon you will be glued to the covers

—— Independent on Sunday

Short review

—— The Good Book Guide

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