Review by Booklist Review
Courting reluctant readers and browsers alike, titles in the Biggest, Baddest Books series offer kids magazine-style pages stuffed with full-color, high-resolution photos and bite-size facts about a wide range of fascinating topics. Ghosts explains some common types of ghosts and describes a few famously haunted places, but it doesn't address that the existence of ghosts hasn't been proven until the final page, which is a drawback for a nonfiction series. While the scattershot layout is ideal for casual browsers, a unifying narrative would have been useful for providing context to the panoply of information, and the glossary is less than comprehensive. Still, many kids interested in weird and wild facts will get a kick out of this accessible, punchy series, which might serve as a useful springboard for further reading.--Hunter, Sarah Copyright 2015 Booklist
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Review by Horn Book Review
Abraham Lincoln's ghost haunts the White House." This book treats its subject as fact, concluding "no one knows for sure" whether or not ghosts are real. Like other books in the series, this entry offers random statements about ghosts and haunted places. Color photographs, many enhanced with spooky effects, are accompanied by a captionlike text. This book is best for browsing. Glos. (c) Copyright 2015. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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