Octavius Bloom and the House of Doom

by Erik Brooks

Octavius Bloom, the new boy in town, uses his detective skills to investigate the scary shed that all the other children are afraid of and finds that things aren't always as they seem.

Genres: Picture Books, Mystery, Childrens

32 pages, Hardcover

First published March 1, 2003

About the author

Erik has been drawing for as long as he can remember, and making books since the early part of the 21st century.

He is particularly fascinated by polar bears and the art of the picture book. He has, however, happily contributed his illustrations to a number of fine and dandy early chapter books about dinosaurs and monkeys, so don't write him off as an arctic specialist :)

Erik's latest book (ahem) is POLAR OPPOSITES (which has arctic AND antarctic characters) and 2011 is the year that he plans to get savvy about things like goodreads.com, twitter, super awesome imovie book trailers, and the magic of social networking!

If it all gets too overwhelming, he'll just try to keep making good books for kids.

Reviews

[Shannon · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a cute mystery picture book that would be great around Halloween time! I wondered if the kids reading the book would pick up on the Pinkerton reference, but there is a nice note in the back that gives them some information about the Pinkerton detectives. There is also a note about cacti.