The Football Ghosts: Red Banana (Banana Books) - Softcover

A boy-friendly, funny football story by Malachy Doyle and Garry Parsons for Egmont’s Red Banana series.

Seamus loves two things - United and ghosts! So when he hears that the spooky old castle on the hill has ghosts playing football in it, he’s up there in a flash! Well, as quickly as he can go with his scaredy-ba Granda in tow. Once they get into the castle, Seamus discovers that there are two teams kicking a ball around there - the 1948 United and Rovers cup final teams, doomed to play on until they hear the final whistle. And guess what Seamus has in his pocket? But first, there’s the chance to beat the Rovers, with Seamus the star striker in place!

Red bananas are chapter books for newly fluent readers, suitable for NC Level 3 readers. They are carefully designed with education in mind, supporting children’s understanding of how to read longer books. Red bananas introduce similes and wordplay to encourage an understanding of more literary concepts. It’s the best of both worlds with football books for kids like The Football Ghosts.

Malachy Doyle Malachy Doyle writes a variety of picture books, story books and teenage novels.  His first teenage novel, Georgie, won the Tir na nOg Award, and his picture book, Cow, won an English Association Award, both in 2002. Malachy now lives in a little seaside town in Wales, with his wife, Liz, and their two cats. Garry Parsons has previously illustrated two Egmont Banana books – The Wrong Kind of Bark and The Four Franks. Garry Parsons Garry Parsons works on magazines, newspapers, advertising, packaging and of course children’s books! The first picture book Garry illustrated was nominated for the Red House Children’s Book Awards 2004 and for the Stockport Children’s Book awards. And his first book as author and illustrator came out in June 2006 and is called Krong. Garry lives in South London.