Horn Book (Tue Jan 03 00:00:00 CST 2023)

To evade bedtime, Little Baby Mummy begs his own mummy to play a game of "Hide and Shriek," during which he gets the fright of his life--courtesy of a tiny mouse. Readers will enjoy having their expectations upended, and there's just enough comedy to declaw the eerie gouache illustrations, showing a foggy graveyard inhabited by Bones, Glob, and Drac.

Kirkus Reviews (Tue Jan 03 00:00:00 CST 2023)

"Just one more game of Hide and Shriek?" begs Little Baby Mummy of his Big Mama Mummy. She relents, Baby hides—but then he gets bored, and goes to look for his mother. One by one, enriched by sound effects, he finds Bones, Glob and Drac in the midst of their bedtime ablutions, who all warn him against the scary creatures of "deep, dark night." Then—"Help, Mama Mummy! I'm scared!"—his mother finds him just in time to rescue him from a mouse and put him to bed. Manders's appealingly round mummy child and the text's rhythmic "clank clink clanks" will find happy audiences. (Picture book. 3-6)

School Library Journal (Tue Jan 03 00:00:00 CST 2023)

PreS-Gr 1 Little Baby Mummy does not want to go to bed. Demanding one more game of "Hide and Shriek," he runs outside to conceal himself in the graveyard, but Mama Mummy doesn't join him. Like the young bird in P. D. Eastman's Are You My Mother? (Random, 1960), he sets off to find her, heading into "the deep, dark woods, the spookery woods" and encountering several creepy creatures: "Clank clink clank/Woo boo woo/Clank clink cloo/'Mama Mummy, is that you?'/But out of the woods clanked/Bones!" This skeleton, as well as a blob and a vampireall making their nighttime preparationsgreet the mummy and tell him to go to bed. The only time the youngster is truly frightenedby a mousehis mother is there to comfort him, take him home, and tuck him into bed. The gouache paintings depict the action with humor, and the eerie details and nighttime hues create just the right mood. Well-placed page turns add a bit of suspense. A reassuring offering for youngsters who want just a touch of the shivers. Kathleen Whalin, York Public Library, ME