The Nightmare Before Christmas by Tim Burton

The Nightmare Before Christmas by Tim BurtonJack Skellington is the most important figure in Halloween Town and for years he has delighted in organising macabre tricks and frights for Halloween. But this year he doesn't feel right there must be more to life than scaring people? Then Jack stumbles upon a cheerful, colourful place called Christmas Town and he knows what he must do he will bring Christmas to Halloween! This is the first book written and illustrated by the incomparable visionary

witty and achingly honest

and uncover the mystery of her past - while meeting some familiar faces along the way

John Betjeman

His deeply religious and disappointed wife

So easy' Nina Stibbe

is sleeping with all the wrong men

A flash of his brushy tail disappearing between the gap of a fence

With an introduction by the writer and critic Viv Groskop

This is a history book

that job is a revolving door - and it has just revolved to reveal Hannah Willis

young children can learn all about what people in other countries eat

the pain of her past was always with her