Haunted Ivy

Hazel Townson, Illustrated by Philippe Dupasquier
Published by Beaver
0-09-941320-5, £1.25

The writer of The Siege of Cobb Street School, and The Speckled Panic, has produced another readable story for lower Junior age children. In Haunted Ivy her two main heroes, Lenny and Jake, invent a ghost to help publicise a remote, rural tea garden, but end up finding a robber's loot and a 'real' flying saucer. Sounds implausible, doesn't it, yet surprisingly the tale does have credibility. My class are enjoying hearing it read aloud to them but it's eminently readable by the individual too. I recommend all of Hazel Townson's books for the school bookshop.

Reviewed in BfK No. 42 (January 1987) by Nigel Spencer (NS)
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