There’s lots for children to think about in this unusual, original picture book, and it might change the way they regard visits to stately homes for ever. All is quiet as we enter Shiverhawk Hall, and the children in the portraits on the walls – as all good children should be – are there to be seen and not heard. But when night falls, the children creep out of their pictures, and run riot! From that silent beginning, the noise rises to a crescendo as the children run through the corridors, raid the kitchen, play games on the stairs. Only as dawn approaches do they climb back into the frames and resume their poses. This has a look and character all of its own; the illustrations, full of atmosphere, make the story both creepy and full of anarchic fun. ~ Andrea Reece
Edward Gorey meets Downton Abbey in a deliciously ghostly caper about mischievous children who won't stay inside their gilded portrait frames.
Welcome to Shiverhawk Hall! It's a big old house full of treasure, mystery, and stories. Here, just look up on the wall. See these beautiful paintings? These are children who used to live here long ago: the DeVillechild twins, the Pinksweet tots . . . my, they look like such good children. So very well behaved. But wait a minute, did you see that? One of their eyes seemed to blink! Did you hear that? A rustle! A whisper! The tiniest scratch! Can it be that when darkness falls, the children on the walls at Shiverhawk Hall climb out of their paintings and run amok?