Families Suffolk Magazine October Half Term Special Edition

Special October Half Term Edition O What's On O Pumpkin Patches O Autumn Family Fun at Home O Halloween Fun O Family Health & Wellbeing familiesonline.co.uk

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Hello...

A very warm welcome to this special online edition of Families Suffolk Magazine.

I have put together a complete guide to What's On in Suffolk and the surrounding area this October half term. It also includes some great ideas and inspiration for things your family can do at home.

IN THIS ISSUE

Our local attractions are working incredibly hard to ensure your visits are safe and have put a number of special measures in place to make sure you can still enjoy family days out. Please do however check with websites and facebook event pages ahead of visiting to see if booking is required, and if any event details have been updated due to changing conditions.

I hope you have a great October half term, please stay safe and have lots of fun.

With Best Wishes

Stacey Phillips Editor

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If you're looking to stay active and find fun ways to explore your local area this Autumn get your walking shoes on and start exploring with Suffolk Steps.

Suffolk Steps is a collection of local historic walks and trails developed by museums and partners throughout Suffolk. The free walks are designed to help all ages stay active and uncover Suffolk's hidden history from the lost city of Dunwich, to the largest Millennium Green in England. You can explore Suffolk Steps by downloading the trails on your phone, or printing the guides at www.suffolkmuseums.org if you have access to a printer.

Suffolk Steps is proud partner of Keep Moving Suffolk, a local campaign aimed at helping people stay active during the Covid-19 outbreak. Keep Moving Suffolk aims to inspire and encourage people to stay active, move or move more, by sharing ideas, tips, useful links and positive stories during these unprecedented times, using the hashtag #KeepMovingSuffolk.

Find out more at keepmovingsuffolk.com or follow the campaign on Facebook @KeepMovingSuffolk or Twitter@Most_Active

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Walking is a simple, free way of exercising and is one of the easiest ways to stay active and become healthier. A brisk 10-minute walk has lots of health benefits and counts towards the recommended 150 minutes of weekly exercise. Whatever your age, increased physical activity is linked to helping people lead a healthier and happier life with lower incidences of chronic illness.

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As with any form of outdoor exercise, please follow the current Government guidelines on staying safe outside your home. View the current Government guidance at

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Half Term at Suffolk Museums If you’re looking for something fun to do this Half-term, check out what Suffolk Museums have in store for you. From searches to sci-fi to spooky Saxons, Suffolk Museums have a range of events for you to choose from. (Please Note: October Half-term listings could be subject to change. Please refer to the museum’s website and social media before attending the event).

Landguard Fort’s Spooktacular Halloween Trail

The Real Middle-earth Tour

Where: Landguard Fort When: 9th Oct– 1st Nov

Where: West Stow AngloSaxon Village and Museum When: 25th October, 1pm – 2.15pm

www.landguard.com

www.weststow.org

Book launch: Adventures of Ben and Jim – 30 fun ways to discover Aldeburgh’s heritage

Where’s Wally? Spooky Museum Search Where: Aldeburgh Museum When: 26th Oct – 1st Nov

Where: Aldeburgh Museum When: 24th & 25th Oct

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Spooky Saxons!

Mini Museum of Me

Where: West Stow AngloSaxon Village and Museum When: 24th Oct – 1st Nov 10am – 5pm

Where: National Horseracing Museum When: Until 31st October www.horseracingmuseum.org

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Pot8os Trail Where: National Horseracing Museum When: 24th Oct – 1st Nov www.horseracingmuseum.org

Family Friendly Fright Nights at the Museum Where: National Horseracing Museum When: 28th – 30th Oct, 4pm - 6pm www.horseracingmuseum.org

Moyse’s Hall: The Museum Strikes Back

New Beginnings

Where: Moyse’s Hall When: 24th Oct – 20th Dec 10am – 5pm

Where: The Lettering Arts Trust When: Monday to Sunday until 15th Nov, 11am-5pm

www.moyseshall.org

www.letteringartstrust.org.uk

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IPSWICH MUSEUM AND CHRISTCHURCH MANSION

Visiting Ipswich Museum and Christchurch Mansion Pre-booking your visit will be required - please see our website for all the information you need to know before planning your visit

Find out more at ipswich.cimuseums.org.uk/visitingipswichmuseums

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Join the search for Wally with your family at Ipswich Museum this half term.

We’re part of the national Where’s Wally? Spooky Museum Search, organised by Kids in Museums and Walker Books, to celebrate the release of the new Where’s Wally? book, Spooky Spotlight Search.

Can you find Wally in our collections? Pick up an activity sheet and get a spooky bookmark if you do!

For more inforation visit: www.ipswich.cimuseums.org.uk/events/whereswally/

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Extended activity season Our many rides and activities are continuing and we are offering reduced admission from October 1st to Christmas Eve. With plenty of space and extra measures in place, now is a great time to visit the farm.

Just

ÂŁ6.50 anyone aged 2 and over

Under 2s go free!

Pre-booked tickets with an entrance time slot only

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Visit Santa this Christmas

Haloween fun on the farm

Sat 24th Oct to Sun 1st Nov 10:30am-4:00pm

Come and visit Santa and have a wonderful Visit the spooky trail, make wand and Christmas experience. Visit our website for more Sata 24th Octbroomstick to Sun 1st Nov 10:30am-4:00pm and complete the eerie quiz for a spooky prize. information and booking details.

Visit the spooky trail, make a wand and broomstick and complete the eerie quiz for a spooky prize.

Visit Santa this Christmas Come and visit Santa and have a wonderful Christmas experience.

Visit our website for more information and booking details.

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KIDS EAT FREE AT UFFORD PARK October Half Term Join us this October half term and children can enjoy a FREE* dish from our ‘Monkey Munchies’ available on our Little Adventurers Menu.

Available Monday - Friday between 2pm and 6pm ONLY. *Adult must purchase a main course from The Park Bar menu valued at £10.95 or more. One child, per one adult.

OPEN EVERY DAY DURING HALF-TERM 19 - 30 OCTOBER Book Online EARLY to avoid disappointment

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*Kubz karting for ages 5-7 *Arrive & Drive for Children aged 8+ *Kids Activity Days

We are open 7 days a week from 9am to 10pm Give us a call to discuss your requirements and book!

Email: sales@angliakarting.com Tel:01473 240087 www.angliakarting.com Unit 12, Farthing Road Industrial Estate, Ipswich, Suffolk. IP1 5AP

Each customer is issued with a personal helmet and suit for the duration of the activity and then sanitised after use.

Anglian Indoor Karting have invested in a state of the art medical grade ozone cabinet to sanitise helmets. They have social distancing in place and plenty of ventilation in the centre. Take a look at the Anlgian Indoor Karting guide to getting back on the track: www.facebook.com/watch/?v =1754846904665854&extid=AwWmcXzZwhuRq4Dg

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HALF TERM UNLIMITED LASER SESSIONS Friday 18th and Mon 21st to Fri 25th Oct 10am-1pm, 2pm-5pm or 6pm-9pm Our 3 hour laser sessions are back for the October Half Term. Just £13per person Booking is essential on all sessions.

Call us to book on 01284 220102

To book visit: www.partymanworld.co.uk

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SPOOKY FRAMLINGHAM CASTLE Sat 24 - Sun 1 Nov 2020 | 10am - 5pm Gather your little monsters for a ghoulishly good day out at Framlingham Castle this half term.

Follow the trail to solve creepy clues and gather round to listen to spooky stories.

There’s a frighteningly fun fancy dress competition every day – just come in your scariest outfits to be in with a chance of winning.

HALLOWEEN TRAIL AT NEEDHAM LAKE Tuesday 27th October at 10:30am Halloween Trail and Scavenger Hunt!

Come and join our October Half Term event!

Halloween activities and nature trail. Spooky science experiments and lots to keep them occupied.

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BIG DRAW 2020 AT SUFFOLK ARCHIVES 26TH OCTOBER - 1ST NOVEMBER Suffolk Archives has teamed up with The Big Draw Festival and their 2020 theme of “A Climate of Change”.

FAMILY FILMS AT ABBEYGATE CINEMA A selection of family movies are available to watch at Abbeygate Cinema this October half term.

You can also get 25% OFF food and drink at No.4 Restaurant & Bar

www.abbeygatecinema.co.uk

We are running a drawing competition which focuses on the relationship between people and our living environments and ecosystems; highlighting how we live today and the ways in which we do and do not harmonise with nature.

Please take a look at their website for more information.

www.suffolkarchives.co.uk/big-draw

KENTWELL’S SCHOOL FOR SORCERY SPOOKY, SAFE HALF-TERM FUN FOR YOUR LITTLE MONSTERS! Bring your family to enter a magical Halloween world.

Explore the spooky zones around Kentwell’s Gardens and Grounds for immersive Halloween fun, challenges and activities aimed at children from 3 to 14 years of age, and their families.

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Throughout October Half Term there are a range of special events including: Spooky Slime and Play Potions and Play Creepy Cookies and Cakes and Play

To Book: www.gymnasticsinipswich.co.uk 01473 433676

For more information and to book, visit: www.yayashouse.co.uk

OCTOBER HALF TERM HALLOWEEN CRAFT FUN Mon 26th - Sat 31st Oct | 9am - 5pm There will be lots of Halloween theme crafts to choose from including our very popular ceramic pumpkins which can either be painted or covered in our NEW Foam Clay.

NEW for Chills 2020. Fun and thrills for the little ghouls and goblins with the House of Little Horrors. Enjoy fun pumpkin carving and make your own slime.

Plus all your favourite rides, shows and attractions.

Prebooking is essential

www.pleasurewoodhills.com

Booking is strongly advisable as we do have less seating due to Covid-19 restrictions.

To book your craft table please fill out a booking form on our website or phone the studio on 01473 517 404.

www.glassandcraft.co.uk

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UNIQUE KEEPSAKES

UNIQUE KEEPSAKES

Get ÂŁ2.00 off Studio Ceramic Painting or Take Home Painting Kits by showing this voucher.

(One voucher per painter and they can not be used against existing deals or offers).

Visit us in our cermanics cafe or pick up a paint at home kit and get creative.

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Siam Hall Boxford Suffolk CO10 5LA

ABOUT SIAM HALL SPOOKY PUMPKINS We first grew pumpkins and opened the patch in 2018 and we absolutely love planting and growing the pumpkins and welcoming all our lovely visitors here in the October half term week each year. ​ e are a small family business and our main aim is to make sure you have a great time W with all the family. We pride ourselves on our friendly and approachable team being on hand to help you take home the best pumpkin!

We look forward to seeing you here this Halloween to grab a wheelbarrow and come and enjoy the wonderful quiet countryside, bring a picnic, purchase some refreshments and come and have a run around in the big field to find your perfect pumpkins to take home!

Open October half term 24th - 31st October every day from 10am - 4pm.

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FIELD OF DREAMS PUMPKIN FEST

WINDOLPHS FARM PUMPKIN FEST

Field of Dreams Farm, Beyton Road, Thurston, Bury St Edmunds, IP31 3RA

Stansfield, Bury St Edmunds, Newmarket, Suffolk, CO10 8LU

www.fieldofdreamsfarm.co.uk

www.facebook.com/suffolkpumpkins

GOSLINGS FARM - PYO

WRENTHAM PUMKINS

Thorpe Lane, Trimley St Martin, Felixstowe, Suffolk, IP11 0RY

Field Farm, Cuckolds Green, Wrentham Suffolk, NR34 7NB

www.goslingsfarm.com

www.facebook.com/wrenthampumpkins

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Pumpkin Patch & Maize Maze, Undley Road, Beck Row, IP28 8BX

Booking is essential for the 2020 event Now in it's 21st year, Undley Farm’s well established pumpkin patch and maize maze event will once again run throughout October (on weekends and at half term).

Set within farmland on a 75-acre site, the event offers PYO pumpkins, an especially created themed maize maze (which celebrates NHS and Key workers), donkey rides, delicious refreshments and other attractions.

Owing to social distancing, indoor space will be at a premium if it rains, so please remember to take umbrellas!

For more information click on the links below.

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FOXES FARM PUMKIN PATCH

FROG'S FARM PUMPKIN PATCH

Foxes Farm Produce, Aldham, Colchester, Essex CO6 3PR

Willow Farm Bungalow, Norwich Rd, Eye, IP23 7ED

www.foxesfarmproduce.co.uk

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PUMPKIN PICKING VILLAGE

PUMKIN JIMS

Marsh Farm Road, South Woodham Ferrers, Chelmsford, CM3 5WP www.marshfarmhop.co.uk/pages/ pumpkin-village

Grange Road, Ickleton Cambridge, CB10 1TA www.pumpkinjimspatch.co.uk

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Autumn Family Fun at Home

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Autumn Outdoors Enjoy these seasonal outdoor activities with the family.

Bark Rubbing

Autumn Scavenger Hunt

Conkers

Mushroom Hunting

Tree Decorating

Making and Flying a Kite

Building a Hedgehog Home

Litter Picking

Making a Leaf Maze

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Great Autumn Crafts Join our friends at MyBaba and get crafty with the kids!

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Autumn Leaf Pictures

3D Autumn Tree Craft

Autumn Leaf Sun Catchers

Autumn Play Dough

Painted Leaves

Leaf Rubbing Busy Bag

Animal Seed Collage

Leaf Chromatography

Autumn Sensory Tray

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LITTLE EDEN CHILDREN’S ACTIVITY PACK LITTLE EDEN IS AN ACTIVITIES PACK OF GROWING, COOKING AND ART PROJECTS FOR YOU TO MAKE AT HOME DOWNLOAD YOUR FREE Children’s Activity Pack and join in the Eden fun today. Filled with gardening, cooking, arts and crafts activities for you to make with children, Little Eden is inspired by Eden and helps bring a piece of the outside indoors. Little Eden offers you a low-fi, low cost way to keep kids entertained and maybe even get them to really love vegetables. Enjoy

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MySpira is the world's first augmented reality asthma training game, developed in collaboration with healthcare professionals. Suitable for children aged 6 -13, the MySpira app aims to improve the training of correct inhaler technique, using a combination of augmented reality and game play.

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IS YOUR CHILD UP TO DATE WITH THEIR

I M M U N I S AT I O N S ?

THE FLU VACCINE Many children are being offered a free flu vaccination this year. This is to help protect them against the disease and help reduce its spread both to other children, including their brothers or sisters, and, of course, their parents and grandparents.

This will help you to avoid the need to take time off work because of flu or to look after your children with flu.

The children being offered the vaccine this year, are: • Children aged two or three years old on 31 August 2020.

Nearly all school-aged children will be offered the flu vaccine in school. For most children, the vaccine will be given as a spray in each nostril. This is a very quick and painless procedure.

For more information on children and flu vaccination see the NHS website information at www.nhs.uk/child-flu.

If you have a child over six months of age who has a long-term health condition, they should have a flu vaccination. All these children are more likely to become severely ill if they catch flu, and it could make their existing condition worse.

• Primary school-aged children.

Don’t ignore any invitation for childhood • Year 7 secondary school-aged children. immunisations, they are free because you need them. You can check you are up to date by visiting: www.nhs.

Children aged two and three years will be given the vaccination at their general uk/conditions/vaccinations/nhsvaccinations-and-when-to-have-them/ practice usually by the practice nurse. familiesonline.co.uk familiesonline.co.uk

HAVE YOU WASHED YOUR HANDS? One of the simplest ways to stop germs spreading is to wash your hands thoroughly and regularly, particularly: • When you get home.

• After using the toilet or changing a nappy.

• Before eating or handling food.

• After blowing your nose, sneezing or coughing.

• Before and after treating a cut or wound.

• After touching animals, including pets, their food and after cleaning their cages.

You should wash your hands for the amount of time it takes to sing "Happy Birthday" twice (around 20 seconds).

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Play is amazing - for us as well as our children!

Play lets children try out roles, solve problems, learn new skills and release stress. There are all sorts of different kinds of play and your child will probably have their own favourite type.

By Madeleine Powell, Certified Play Therapist | www.shinewithplay.co.uk

Different kinds of play Some children love to play with objects – taking things apart, trying to put them back together again, building with lego, junk modelling, den building. This can cross over into imaginative play, creating worlds and stories, playing a role or being the all powerful narrator and deciding what happens to all the characters. This can encourage physical skills with manipulating the objects, the problem solving of translating what they imagine in their mind into the real world, emotional skills as they deal with the frustration of things not always going according to plan and trying out emotions in a safe story scenario.

Rough and tumble play helps children learn how to regulate themselves. As a parent you might have watched rough and tumble play and thought, ‘this will end in tears’. Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn’t and that is part 30

of the child’s learning to regulate, getting to grips with how much they can take, what they like and don’t like, and learning to consider their rough and tumble partner. All that is going on as they roll around on the carpet like a pair of puppies or leap about on the bed (your bed of course!)

And that is just a few examples of how much goes on in play. It is essential for growth and wellbeing and this applies to grown-ups as well as kids. Play might look different as you get older but it is still play.

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Play is for all of us

Play can relieve stress

The definition of play is being ‘engaged in activity for enjoyment and recreation rather than a serious or practical purpose’. Think about something you love to do. It might be getting creative with arts and crafts, mending things, maybe you play a team sport or do individual exercise. When you are doing it, you lose track of time, you are absorbed, you enjoy it. That is play. You are not doing it because someone told you to, or you want to get paid for it, you are doing it for fun.

Perhaps you are lucky and sometimes get to play as part of your work, occasions when the

Finding time to play for both you and your child can be a great way to help your wellbeing, especially as we are all exposed to the ongoing anxiety of the pandemic. Let yourselves do something without any purpose or goal, other than that you enjoy doing it. Time passes without you realising and you have switched off from all the external stress for a little while.

enjoyment of what you are doing is greater than the fact that you get paid for it.

Playfulness is one of the easiest ways to break down barriers and bond with someone, be that your child or a friend or a partner.

Play is also a wonderful way to make connections with other people and finding connection helps our wellbeing enormously.

Children are experts at this – how many times have you heard ‘do you want to play with me?’

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Do you play? Have you been for a walk and collected leaves or poked in the mud and splashed in puddles? Do you ever exercise because it feels good to move your body and that is more important than getting fit or losing weight? How about dancing in the kitchen or singing in the shower? Getting lost in a good book or film, painting or baking something and caring less about how it turns out than the act of making it?

Play therapy helps children to cope with life’s difficulties by using play as the main communication tool.

Play therapy gave my little boy his spark back!

Mother of six year old If you would like to explore further how play therapy could help your child then please get in touch.

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At Active Suffolk we are currently working to revise our offer to Children and Young People across the county by revising our five year plan.

As part of this work, we have teamed up with Healthwatch Suffolk to carry out some research. Rather than making the decisions ourselves, we are working with Healthwatch Suffolk to gather insight from children and young people from school years, year 1 – 11 and we need your help.

The survey which has been created as part of this project is to be completed by parents/ carers of children from year 1 – 2 and pupils in year 3 – 11 in Suffolk or the young people themselves.

The survey will take 5-10 minutes to complete and all responses are anonymous and not linked to an individual’s contact details or name in any way.

Please complete the survey today by using the following link. www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/ActiveSuffolk In addition to the survey, we are also inviting people aged 14+ across Suffolk to work on a co-production to help shape the five year plans.

More information about how you or the young people you work with could get involved, including the benefits, can be found at:

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9 BEST HALLOWEEN RECIPES Creative Halloween party snacks for all the family to enjoy making and eating.

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Sticky Toffee Apples

Spider Pizzas

Frozen Banana Ghosts

Scary Halloween Jelly

Sausage Mummy Dippers

Halloween Cupcakes

Spooky Pumpkin Soup

Eerie Eyeball Pops

Pumpkin Rice Krispies Treats

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9 BEST HALLOWEEN GAMES Perfect for a small gathering or indoor family fun!

Halloween Pinata

Sticky Spider Web Game

Pumpkin Golf

Halloween Bingo

Halloween Tin Can Bowling

Apple Bobbing

Pin the Tail on the Black Cat

Toilet Paper Mummy Game

Doughnut Eating Race

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Bookish frights and delights

By Freya McLauglin With Halloween parties and trick or treating looking unlikely this year, snuggle in on 31st October with a spooky family read instead.

Scare level 1 Classic picture books have a host of approachable Halloween characters to entertain, from the warm hearted witch in Room on the Broom to the comical Funnybones family, providing plenty of scope for young children to join in the Halloween fun without the risk of night terrors!

For children who are afraid of night time, The Dark by Lemony Snicket and Jon Klassen tells the story of nervous Laszlo who tries to keep the dark away from his room, before the helpful Dark becomes a companion whom he learns to live happily alongside.

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Scare level 2 For lovers of Gothic mystery, Goth Girl and the Ghost of a Mouse fits the bill perfectly. The first in Chris Riddell’s popular series, the beautifully animated and witty story tells the tale of lonely Ada Goth, whose life changes when she meets supernatural mouse Ishmael and sets out to thwart the plot unfolding in her own home.

Increasing the fear factor considerably is Emma Carroll’s Frost Hollow Hall. This wintry Victorian ghost story focuses on servant girl Tilly, whose near drowning in a frozen lake mirrors an accident from a decade before, in which the young heir was drowned. His ghost saves her, but needs her help. Can Tilly solve the mystery at the unsettling hall?

Neil Gaiman’s writing is made for Halloween and perhaps his best loved children’s horror is Coraline. After moving to a new house, Coraline Jones discovers a mysterious corridor, leading to an almost exact replica of her own home. Living there is one of modern literature’s most chilling creations: the other mother. Looking uncannily like her own mother, this mysterious replica seems to provide everything she is looking for. Except that she has black buttons for eyes and wants Coraline to have them too...

Scare level 3 For horror enthusiasts only, recently published The Haunting of Aveline Jones by Phil Hickes will provide all the creepiness your heart could desire!

When Aveline is left to stay with an estranged aunt, her obsession with ghost stories leads her to find out more about local history than is wise. Who was Primrose Penberthy, the owner of the spooky, old book Aveline finds? And what happened to her? With a stormy, windswept setting, a drowning victim seeking revenge, and macabre scarecrow children dotted around the town of Malmouth, no-one will sleep well after reading this.

And finally, for those who have no desire for their pulse to ease before November, there is A Skinful of Shadows by the wonderful YA writer Francis Hardinge. During the Civil War, illegitimate Makepeace Felmotte is born into a sinister family- a family that have the ability to absorb the spirits of their ancestors. And so begins Makepeace’s internal battle, to keep control of her own mind against dark forces.

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