Book description
A delightful, funny story of friendship, ghost chores, a spooky house and a professional haunter.
Meet Sir Simon, Super Scarer. He's a professional ghost who has been transferred to his first house. And just in time! He was getting tired of haunting bus stops and forests and potatoes. And to…
Why read it?
2 authors picked Sir Simon as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This book is super funny. Sir Simon’s expressions are priceless. I love how Sir Simon looks grumpy but kind inside.
The layout and comic-like style make this book dynamic and fun to read. Cale’s artwork is super expressive, vibrant, and funny.
From Lenny's list on picture books with creepy and cute ghosts.
While I am an intermediate student in digital art making, I am a big fan of digital art well done. Cale Atkinson’s fun ghosty picture book, Sir Simon: Super Scarer was a delight to discover!
Atkinson combines stylized skewed perspectives with a wealth of interesting design elements like multiple type styles, picture frame vignettes to divide up a page, hidden ghosts in wallpaper, inventive word balloons, cutaways, and active layouts to move the reader through this fun book.
What I really loved was Atkinson’s use of gravely textures over layers of saturated color favoring turquoise and terra cotta, with a…
From Jacqueline's list on Halloween illustrated.
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