"Spooked!" Week: Mayor Tashwhisker

Age: 54

Likes: Model railway, over-sized trinkets, waving his arms hysterically

Dislikes: Sticky foods, elections, power cuts, odd numbers

"Spooked!" Week: Daisy

Age: 3

Likes: Old Mother Spookton's stories, tugging at the Mayor's facial hair, Raisin the stuffed rabbit

Dislikes: Bad dreams, vegetables, things that go bump in the night

"Spooked!" Week: Curly

Age: 22

Likes: Yodeling, Ursula's knitted scarves, Old Mother Spookton's home-made apple cobbler,

Dislikes: Exercise, ant farms, yellow jelly

"Spooked!" Week: Old Mother Spookton

Everyday for the next week I'll be uploading a character from Spooked!

So to start off, it's Old Mother Spookton:





Age: 83

Likes: Cats, baking, telling stories to the younger residents of Spookton.

Dislikes: Spooks stealing underwear from her washing line, mice.

Spooked!

Sample artwork for a picture-book idea I've had rattling around in my head for a long time. It's great to finally get the story and art concepts finalised and on paper!


In Spooked!, the town of Spookton is being plagued nightly by mischievous ghosts. The townspeople try different methods of repelling them - all of which fail - until one little girl has an idea that saves the day (or rather, the night).