Gilbert the Ghost

by Guido Van Genechten (Author)

Gilbert the Ghost
Reading Level: K − 1st Grade

Bestselling children's picture book, from award-winning author-illustrator Guido Van Genechten!

Gilbert goes to ghost school like all the other ghosts, but he's a special ghost: he doesn't like to screech in a scary way, he doesn't want to haunt and was always polite. What will happen to Gilbert when he's sent by the principal of school to the Abandoned Tower? A warmhearted picture book by bestselling author-illustrator Guido Van Genechten about a different, special ghost. 

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A little ghost unapologetically makes the most of being different....Different never looked so appealing.

Publishers Weekly

Gilbert is different than his fellow ghosts at Ghost School--not only is he a pale pink, instead of white, but when he tries to say "Boo," all that comes out is a stammering "Ba... ba... bahoo." The principal banishes Gilbert to the menacing "Abandoned Tower" to learn how to be scary, but when he meets Meow, a black cat with a purple bow around his tail, the two new friends turn the forbidding, decrepit tower into a cozy abode, complete with curtains, vases of flowers, and a roaring fireplace. It's a sweet story about outsider friendship that is just slightly scary in places. While the plot is as airy as Gilbert himself, it's hard not to be charmed by van Genechten's smiley, rosy-cheeked ghosts, who could give Casper a run for his money in the cuteness department. Ages 4-up. (July)

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Guido Van Genechten
Guido Van Genechten (1957, Belgium) studied drawing and painting, graphics and photography. Afterward, he worked for many years in the graphic industry. Now Guido works as a full-time illustrator of children's books. In 1998 he won the international Illustrator's Award City of Hasselt with his picture book Ricky. This prize was the beginning of his international career as a children's book illustrator. Since that moment, Guido Van Genechten has created many best-selling stories and received several awards. In 2007 he was the winner of the Reader's Digest Award for Best Children's Book Illustrator. And in the past ten years, his books were published in 30 countries around the world.
Classification
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781605372235
Lexile Measure
-
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Clavis
Publication date
April 21, 2015
Series
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BISAC categories
JUV039050 - Juvenile Fiction | Social Themes | Emotions & Feelings
JUV017030 - Juvenile Fiction | Holidays & Celebrations | Halloween
JUV069000 - Juvenile Fiction | Ghost Stories
Library of Congress categories
Individuality
Ghosts
Ghost stories
Children's stories

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