There are fifty-six poems in this award-winning book of verse and pictures. In addition to ghouls, ghosts, beasts and weirdos of every description, the characters include such new and memorable characters as The Wild-Bill Hickok Bird, The Doom Merchant, Sophie Charlotte Wyatt-Wyatt and the unfortunate Professor Blinker. Discover the fiendish secrets of Jekyll and Hyde Park, what an ogre eats for his breakfast, and meet some very recognisably human monsters too! Colin McNaughton has written and illustrated "There's an Awful Lot of Weirdos in our Neighbourhood", "Who's Been Sleeping in My Porridge?", "Have You Seen Who's Just Moved in Next Door to Us?" (winner of the 1991 Emil/Kurt Maschler Award), "Watch Out for the Giant-Killers!" (shortlisted for the 1991 Earthworm Award), "Who's That Banging on the Ceiling?", "Captain's Abdul's Pirate School", "Here Come the Aliens" and "Suddenly" shortlisted for the 1994 Smarties Book Prize.