Greg’s Spooky Surprise! School of Monsters by Sally Rippin

In this hilarious story from the best-selling first-reader series, Greg’s monster surprise goes monstrously wrong!

Greg loves the spooky season. BOO!
But others don’t. What can he do?

Greg’s built a haunted house, but it’s a bit too scary for his friends. Can he work out a way for them all to have fun?

Welcome to the School of Monsters: the funniest, silliest and most accessible series for first readers, by Australian Children’s Laureate Sally Rippin! Start by reading only the last word on every line and work your way up to reading the whole story. With tumbling rhymes and an infectious sense of humour, the weird and wonderful students at the School of Monsters are guaranteed to spark a love of reading!

• DR SEUSS MEETS SESAME STREET: The perfect series to engage and encourage emerging readers, with bouncing rhymes, simple vocabulary and a colourful cast of characters.
• BESTSELLING AND BELOVED DECODABLE SERIES: With over a million books in print and a dozen languages in translation, School of Monsters has fans all over the world and plenty of titles in the series for hungry new readers!
• STAR AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR DUO: Australian Children’s Laureate Sally Rippin and much-loved illustrator Chris Kennett have created an enticing monsters’ universe together.
• BONUS CONTENT: Every book features a decodable word game based on the story, a guide to fostering early literacy, and a how-to-draw spread for the main character!

Readers will love other books in the School of Monsters series:

• Mary Has the Best Pet
• Leggy Peggy
• Hairy Sam Loves Bread and Jam
• Super-fast Skelly
• Tish Learns to Swim
• Luna Boo has Feelings Too
• Milly’s Family Fun
• and many more!

Greg Pumpkin learns that scaring is not caring in this funny first-reader story set in the wonderfully weird School of Monsters.

About the Author: Sally Rippin is a best-selling and beloved author for children, and the eighth Australian Children’s Laureate. Her most popular series include Billie B Brown, Hey Jack! and School of Monsters, and she has over 10 million books in print worldwide. She has also written one book for adults: Wild Things: How We Learn to Read and What Can Happen If We Don’t.

As the Australian Children’s Laureate, Sally promotes the importance and transformational power of reading, creativity and story in the lives of young Australians. She is passionate about literacy and access to stories, and travels across the world speaking with parents, teachers and librarians about how to engage struggling readers.

Chris Kennett has been drawing ever since he could hold a pencil (or so his mum says). But professionally, Chris has been creating quirky characters for just over 20 years. He’s best known for drawing weird and wonderful creatures from the Star Wars universe, and his School of Monsters and Cross Bones series.

29 Jul 2025
 

Greg’s Spooky Surprise!: School of Monsters: Volume 26 by Sally Rippin ISBN 9781761213533