People – Picks and Pans

From a children’s books round up in the August 4th People magazine:

The Wolves in the Walls by Neil Gaiman, illustrated by Dave McKean.
In a mildly scary tale, a girl’s confidence grows after she detects strange sounds in the house and persuades her family to help dispel the intruders.

While that is a summation of the plot, it leaves out two of the main joys of the story; the first being that it’s very funny, and the second being that the wordplay is a delight to listen to. This is a book very suitable to be read aloud to any of the children in your life, even if they are in their mid thirties.