Another childhood favourite book

Good morning people.
I hope all is okay?

Thought I would share another favourite book of mine. This book takes me back to 1993, when I started getting into horror books, my first taste of a horror book was a book called 'Welcome to Deadhouse.' by R.L. Stine, his first in many of the Goosebumps series.

You could always find me in the local library after school and even on a Saturday, looking through loads of books, trying to decide which ones to take out and which ones I would take out next time. An average  sized book would take me an evening to read, without skimming pages and retaining lots of information about the characters etc...
Each book took me on a whole new adventure, it was a way to escape the boring reality and look into a world of fantasy where anything was possible.
My memory is slightly blurred as to what books I used to read from the age of 4-7, though aged 7 I read a book in the school library called 'Dancing Nadine.' The front cover called to me (aswell as the title lol) there was a girl in what I think was a leotard dancing on grass in the moonlight.
By the time I was 9, I'd started reading war poetry by such people as Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen. If I remember rightly these two met whilst in hospital on the front line, recovering from injuries. Owen was sent back to the front line and died in October 1918, a month before the war ended. From his poetry I gathered that at first it was some big adventure for glory, but then his poetry changed, full of woe, misery, sadness and such anger at what he was seeing and some sort of plea, to get him out of there, to get them all out of there.

Okay onto 'Welcome to Deadhouse.'
This book scared ten bells out of me, it wasn't so much the creepiness of the book, it was how it was written, the tone and voice.
This book centres around Amanda & Josh, who move to Dark Falls with their parents.
From the moment they step foot in dark falls, things begin to happen. Why is it so dark? Why does the neighbourhood feel so abandoned? And why do the local kids act so strangely.
And when the sun comes out, everyone goes in.
R.L. Stine is a master of the creepy for young children (10yrs plus though) and such a good writer.
I recently re-read this book, my daughter wanted to read a horror book, so I thought this would be the perfect one. It still gives me the creeps even though I know what is coming, this book has lost non of it's spine tingling 'power' lol.

I used to get books for my kids, you know the usual like, Winnie the Pooh, Alice in wonderland etc...
Dean is the hardest one to get to read now, though he is slowly improving.
At one stage he refused point blank to read and as usual (he was about 5) and again i turned to books I loved during childhood - The Funnybones series by Janet & Alan Ahlberg. The characters are funny, the stories are hilarious and the books are colourful, which I've noticed encourages reading from my kids, don't know if it works for everyone?
Come to think of it I remember being about 4 and reading Burglar Bill, also by the same duo.
So please do try the Funnybones series and Burglar Bill, it may intrigue your child and encourage them to read a little more.

Thankyou for reading, see you guys/gals on friday.