Upper Key Stage 2
Spooky stories. Big thrills. Brilliant books. 👻📚
Get UKS2 pupils hooked with a spine-tingling mix of diary-format stories, short stories, graphic novels, funny frights and scarier reads.
With something for every reader, pupils can choose a book for themselves, share stories with friends or enjoy one together as a class novel. Expect jump scares, chattering teeth, giggles and plenty of book chatter!
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Get UKS2 pupils hooked with a spine-tingling mix of diary-format stories, short stories, graphic novels, funny frights and scarier reads.
Featuring brilliant books from amazing authors and illustrators, this is a collection pupils won’t want to put down.
A spooky bundle for every kind of reader.
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🧪👹 What If You Took the Potion of Doom?
📖 Discover • 👀 Listen • 😱 Imagine • ✏️ Create
Step inside the wonderfully weird world of Jekyll vs Hyde with author Jack Meggitt-Phillips! In this chilling and hilarious video, Jack introduces pupils to his brand-new series and takes them into the dark and mysterious world of Potion of Doom.
Jack shares a gripping reading from the story at the moment when selfish, spoilt young Henrik Jekyll takes the mysterious potion, convinced it will turn him into the very best version of himself. But things don’t quite go to plan… What emerges is something monstrously different!
With gothic humour, chaos, potions, laboratories and a monster lurking both inside and out, this extract is designed to leave pupils desperate to discover what happens next.
Then it’s time for pupils to take over the storytelling. Jack sets a creative “What if?” challenge: what is the worst thing that could happen? Can you dream up a short story that is creepy, surprising or downright terrifying?
So get writing, unleash your imagination and see if you can give Jack a jump scare and make the hairs on the back of his neck stand up!
👻🍞 Meet Ghost & Toast!
📖 Discover • 💬 Create • ✏️ Draw • 🎭 Play
Get ready for a wonderfully wacky graphic novel adventure with author and illustrator Phil Corbett! In this fun-filled video, Phil introduces pupils to the unforgettable characters in Ghost & Toast and gives us a fun-filled reading from the very beginning of the comic.
Pupils will get a peek behind the scenes of graphic novel creation as Phil shows them how to build a story using panels, speech bubbles and pictures. With Ghost, Toast and a whole host of wonderfully weird characters to inspire them, pupils will see just how much fun you can have telling a story through comics.
Then it’s time for a creative challenge! Phil shares a rhyming character pair – Tooth and Hoof – and challenges pupils to come up with their very own funny rhyming duo. What names can your class dream up?
Packed with laughs, creativity and plenty of comic-making inspiration, this is a brilliant introduction to the joy of graphic novels – with just the right amount of spookiness!
👻🎢 Welcome to Apocoland!
📖 Discover • 😱 Read • 🤔 Imagine • ✏️ Create
Get ready to enter the strange and spooky world of Hazard with horror author Jennifer Killick! In this thrilling video, Jennifer introduces pupils to the Serial Chillers series before taking a closer look at Horror in Hazard … a creepy adventure where a trip to a theme park is anything but ordinary.
Jennifer sets the scene, revealing more about Travis, Zayd, Danielle and Seline as they make their way through the terrifying zones of Apocoland. She then reads a crucial moment from the story, as the friends come face-to-face with an Apocobot… but what happens next? You’ll have to watch to find out, and prepare for a cliffhanger that will leave pupils desperate to discover whether they survive!
With spooky secrets, jump scares and plenty of danger, this video is designed to get pupils excited about diving into Horror in Hazard and finding out what lurks inside Apocoland.
But the horror doesn’t stop there! Jennifer leaves pupils with a creative challenge: can you design a ride for Apocoland that is as terrifying as possible? Get ready to unleash your imagination and create a theme-park ride that will have everyone screaming!
🚪👻 Step Through the Sideways Door… If You Dare!
📖 Discover • 👀 Listen • 😱 Imagine • ✏️ Create
Dare to step through the Sideways Door with award-winning author Guy Bass! In this captivating video, Guy invites pupils into a deliciously dark collection of spooky stories, poems and supernatural surprises – but be warned… once you step through, your world may never be quite the same again!
Guy introduces pupils to the wonderfully weird world of The Worst Thing That Could Possibly Happen, exploring the different kinds of stories hiding inside. He shares a spine-tingling poem about The Halloween Man, guaranteed to send a shiver down your spine, and shows just how much fun there can be in exploring horror through poetry, short stories and more.
Then it’s time for pupils to unleash their darkest imaginations! Guy challenges them to create the most terrifying character they can dream up. What do they look like? What makes them scary? And what horrible surprises might they have in store?
Perfect for KS2 readers who like their stories on the unsettling side, this is a wonderfully creepy introduction to a collection full of monsters, mayhem and jump scares. So step through the side door, let your imagination run wild… and watch out for what might be waiting on the other side!
Head over to Picture New’s website for thought-provoking questions, discussion prompts and activities inspired by the important themes within each book.
Children will be encouraged to express their opinions, listen to different viewpoints and connect the stories with their own experiences and the wider world.
Head over to Teacher’s Pet’s website for creative teaching ideas and classroom activities inspired by the books.
Their resources are designed to help teachers explore the stories in engaging and imaginative ways across the curriculum.