" The House of Madame M is brought to magical life with Clotilde Perrin’s paperengineering and imagination. A haunted house is perfectly suited to the lift-the-flaps format." Julia Marshall, Publisher
Clotilde Perrin is an illustrator living in Strasbourg. Her previous work includes At the Same Moment Around the World.
"Fond of house tours? Considering what lurks behind every door,
drawer, and flap, here's the Airbnb from, literally, hell."Oh, and
one piece of advice," purrs the partly human guide waiting at the
door, "don't touch a thing." Viewers valiant (or unwise) enough to
ignore that warning are in for a rare screamfest, as every
subsequent, dimly lit room is scattered with flaps and pull-tabs
that invariably reveal arrays of leering ghosts, hideous monsters,
skeletons, imps, or shelves filled with bottles of poison or other
portents of doom. Not to mention the raging fire glaring from the
pop-up fireplace, the load of disgusting glop sucked into a
monstrous mouth, the glutinous thing rising from the bathtub…and so
much more. Perrin adds bits of all-too-suggestive patter ("Our cook
has been sharpening her knives. You know, some people would kill
for a morsel of her tasty creations!") and lovingly embellishes
walls and floors with eerie detail. Unfolding a huge pair of hairy
arms reveals a climactic view of assembled boojums beneath an
"Abandon hope all who enter here" banner—just the thing to send the
never-seen visitor scurrying ("Wait! Where are you going?")…and
probably coming back around to the front for a repeat visit. Not
since Jan Pienkowski's Haunted House (1979) has a pop-up treatment
of the theme been so satisfying.The most, and best, (pop-up)
haunted house in decades." (Pop-up picture book. 6-9)
*Kirkus Starred Review*
"Heck, with large-format, life-the-flaps fun behind every door,
designed for hours of engagement, you might say it’s urgent."
*Publisher's Weekly*
"The House of Madame M is a perfect memento mori for the young –
and the young-at-heart."
*The Source*
"They simply don’t make many books like this one. It’s a real
spooky treasure."
*Dad Suggests*
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