Description

From the bestselling Jon Klassen comes a house-shaped, peep-through board book for young readers with a thrill for things that go bump in the night – while feeling safely tucked into their own house, with plenty of somebodies around.

Here are all the things in this house: a chair, a clock on the wall, a stool, a lamp. What’s missing from this house? Somebody. This is the house with nobody in it. Well, there might be something…

Designed as an oversize board book, this story takes young ones through a recognisable, cosy house, while die cuts introduce just a hint of precarity. This is the house with nobody in it – or is it?

This is classic Klassen, revealing a bit of mystery before bringing us back into the familiar … shifty eyes and all.

FROM THE WINNER OF THE ASTRID LINDGREN MEMORIAL AWARD 2026

Publisher Review

Children will argue with the book, laugh at the words, poke their fingers through the windows and doors, search the house’s rooms and inventory its objects, try to color in the book’s blank spaces or add a chimney, prop it open like an actual haunted house. * The New Yorker * a master class in taking the simplest of children’s-book formats-a sturdy, thick-paged board book-and creating a story of haunting elegance for readers ages 3 to 7. — Katie Daniels * The Wall Street Journal *