What is also so beautiful is the way in which she captures the friendship between Olive and Morton. The moon, like a sliver of sharpened bone slit the trails of passing clouds." and my favorite line "Twists of black crepe paper threaded the warm air, where the smells of popcorn and caramel mingled in a sugary fog." Can't you just smell the popcorn in the air? If that wasn't enough, the illustrations are gorgeous and too capture the mood of the season with one of my favorites being Olive and her friends dressed up in costumes for a Halloween carnival. "Above them, the purple sky was deepening to black. Instead, capturing the suspense, mystery and intrigue by the beautiful poetic way in which she writes. West does a remarkable job of building on the suspense of the previous books, increasing it in such a way that is not to scary.
Pseudonymous Bosch, Coraline, and Septimus Heap." Magic abound as Olive, the boys, and the cats uncover the true nature of The stakes grow higher, the secrets more dangerous, and mystery and It back? Can she trust the strangers? Will she turn to a new andÄangerous magic within the paintings of Elsewhere? Or will she put herįaith in her own worst enemies to save the people and home she loves? It's Halloween night when strangers come to Linden Street.and " Olive thought she'd uncovered all the house's secrets.
The books of elsewhere series#
This book is by far my favorite of the series (I should say thus far, because there is one more book slated for 2014). My beautiful uncorrected proof was courteous of the author, and is set for release July 16th 2013. The Books of Elsewhere: The Strangers, which is Book 4 in the series, was written by Jacqueline West and illustrated by Poly Bernatene.