Customer Reviews

Inside a House That is Haunted (Rebus Read-Along Stories)

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My 5 year old son loves this book. I purchased it for him last year and he still can't get enough of it! He gets such a thrill because he can read it to me! A must buy for any parent who has young children.

This story is a Halloween favorite at our house. It encourages a child to join in the fun of telling the story along with you, as each page adds another "monster" to the storyline. The child recalls the sequence of events and proudly recites them as the story progresses.

i work in a preschool/day care center, and we use this book all the time. the children ask to hear it all year round they love it so much. if you get this book, i would recommend the cassette that goes with it. it makes the book twice as much fun!!!!1

We normally stay away from books with "living dead" themes, but this one was very cute and the read-along format was a big hit with my 6 year old son. The pictures are big, colorful, and funny, and the rhyming verse makes it easy to remember what has happened so far. An excellent choice for halloween time!

My son received this from his preschool teachers on the last day of school. It was an instant hit and favorite bed time story.

The layout of the book has text on one side of the page and illustration on the other. The book starts with "Here is the hand that knocks on the door" and shows a monster's green hand. Page 2 continues with "Here is the hand that knocks on the door, that startles the spider....", and shows a picture of a spider. Each new page builds on the previous sentence and adds on to the story. On and on we go through the house until the reader finds out who is at the door.

The text of the story is peppered with pictures replacing of some of the words (so where it says "here is the hand", the word 'hand' is replaced by the picture of the green monster's hand).

What I've found when reading this story to my 3 year old, is that having the pictures interwoven with the text is helping him to notice that there are words on the page instead of just focusing on the illustrations. Now I find him trying to follow along with the text as I read the words. I'm not a teacher, so I can't comment on whether this will help in teaching kids to read, but I think we've stumbled onto something here.

I would definitely recommend this story for preschool aged children.

My Kindergartener loved it. By the middle of the story he was reading parts himself and has asked for other books like it. The illustrations and the verse was extremely entertaining and captures their attention each time it it read.

My 4 year old son has requested this book every night since we bought it several weeks ago. He has the first several phrases memorized. The illustrations are wonderful and have him captivated. We highly recommend this fun story.

My 4-year-old granddaughter has this book memorized. She loves the repetition and the story. It's not scary for little ones which is something I liked about it.

I bought this book because my younger children love "Inside a Barn in the Country" by the same author/illustrator. It lived up to our expectations, and was a fun Halloween read.

My daughter loves this book and asks for it all the time. She was able to read along with me after couple of reads. The pictures are so cute.