Have You Seen Who's Just Moved In Next Door To Us?

With a verse form that goes rollicking along similar lines to the popular There's an Awful Lot of Weirdos in Our Neighbourhood, this book takes us on a colourful tour of a street inhabited by a diverse multitude of freaks and oddballs from all areas of literature, popular culture and the communal unconscious. Monsters, ghosts, ghouls and aliens are all horrified by the arrival of the mysterious new neighbours, whose truly disturbing identity is at last revealed on the final panoramic fold-out spread. The pages are rich with pictorial and verbal jokes, the latter carried in a subtext of speech balloons. This book will be an instant favourite with all ages, if the reactions of the children I showed it to are anything to go by. Its message condemning prejudice just about manages to emerge from the sumptuous narrative through which it's expressed.