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Book Buzz: Midnight Manor by Sid Sharp

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Sid Sharp, photo credit the author“I’m drawn to mischief and mystery, the sense of something strange and eerie going on. I sort of wish that I could make children’s books as genuinely frightening and funny as R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps, but I can’t be serious enough to make something deeply terrifying. I go for that, and silliness naturally comes out in the process.”

  ― Sid Sharp, Interview, Publishers Weekly

Midnight Manor by Sid Sharp

What booksellers are saying about Midnight Manor

  • Kids are going to grow up and say, “remember that bedtime book you would read me about the weird, spooky creatures in different rooms of a mansion?” Sid Sharp is a genius. The aesthetics are inimitable, and they’ll leave an impression.
      ― Ryan, Dad Suggests Books, Fayetteville, Arkansas | BUY

  • What a funny, silly bedtime book! Makes the Halloween monsters endearing not scary. love the Good night moon reference!
      ― Jean, Thornwell Books, Morganton, North Carolina | BUY

  • This one is for all the littles and their bigs who dream of gossiping with gargoyles or gardening with ghouls. Simultaneously a wild rumpus and a quiet night in a great green room, it’s the ‘going to bed’ book for a post Halloween, sugared up nighttime routine.
    ― Michelle, Cavalier House Books, Denham Springs, Louisiana | BUY

  • Packed with alliteration and evocative vocabulary, this is a must for Halloween or anytime! Sid Sharp creates such unique worlds that appeal to kids and adults alike. Midnight Manor is for anyone who loves spooky season and anyone who loves to see offbeat details in a book.
    ― Johanna, McIntyre’s Books, Pittsboro, North Carolina | BUY

About Sid Sharp

Sid Sharp is an Eisner-nominated author, illustrator, and bookseller of uncommon books. Their first book, The Wolf Suit, was a School Library Journal Best Book of the Year and has been translated into eight languages. Its beloved companion, Bog Myrtle, was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award. Sid has been nominated for the German Youth Literature Prize and has been named a 2026 Sendak Fellow. Sid lives in Toronto, Ontario.

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Starlings by Amanda Linsmeier

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Starlings by Amanda Linsmeier
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After the death of her father, Kit discovers a grandmother she never knew she had. Invited to visit her grandmother in Rosemont, Kit’s father’s hometown, Kit quickly finds herself entangled in a mystery that her family has had a long involvement in. Eerie and engrossing, Starlings is a rosey-tinged gothic where monsters lurk and secrets can’t stay buried.

Starlings by Amanda Linsmeier, (List Price: 18.99, Delacorte Press, 9780593572337, June 2023)

Reviewed by Charlie Williams, Square Books in Oxford, Mississippi

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Monster Camp by Sarah Henning

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Monster Camp by Sarah Henning
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Ghost stories around the fire are almost requisite activities at most summer camps, but what if you realized that the monsters at your camp were actually your fellow campers? That’s just what happens to Sylvie in this hilarious slightly spooky summer sleepaway tale that’s the perfect read for a long summer night.

Monster Camp by Sarah Henning, (List Price: 17.99, Margaret K. McElderry Books, 9781665930055, May 2023)

Reviewed by Angie Tally, The Country Bookshop in Southern Pines, North Carolina

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Hell Followed with Us by Andrew Joseph White

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Hell Followed with Us by Andrew Joseph White
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Hell Followed With Us is a book that sinks its teeth into you from the first page. Andrew Joseph White crafts a horrifying apocalyptic world that feels at once utterly fresh yet familiar as the narrative grapples with climate change, illness, religious extremism, and LGBTQ issues. It’s a furious novel– but not without hope as protagonist Benji, a young queer trans boy with a monster inside him, falls in with a found-family of other queer teens and embraces the opportunity to fight back against his oppressors who would otherwise use him as a bioweapon for their own violent ends. Hell Followed With Us is an original, unique YA horror debut guaranteed to stay with readers long after the last page.

Hell Followed with Us by Andrew Joseph White, (List Price: $18.99, Peachtree Teen, 9781682633243, June 2022)

Reviewed by Charlie Williams, Square Books in Oxford, Mississippi

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Small Knight and the Anxiety Monster by Manka Kasha

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Small Knight and the Anxiety Monster
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Small Knight’s parents want her to be a princess, but that is the opposite of what she wants, which is to be a knight who goes on adventures. Small Knight worries about telling her parents the truth, and finds that the worry she keeps inside has grown into a dark monster who follows her everywhere. During a quest to find the truth about the monster, Small Knight realizes she has to look inside herself to fight the monster, and although it may never fully go away, she is in control of her destiny and dreams. SMALL KNIGHT AND THE ANXIETY MONSTER is an honest and important book for children.

Small Knight and the Anxiety Monster by Manka Kasha (List Price: $18.99, Feiwel & Friends, 9781250618795, 6/1/2021)

Reviewed by Beth Seufer Buss, Bookmarks in Winston-Salem, North Carolina

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