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|summary=Put the real BOO! into peek-a-BOO! with this colourful and friendly first BOO!k book for babies.

Creating a fun book for a young toddler or older baby appears easy, but is actually tricky to pull off well. Just shoving a few animals or shapes into a cardboard BOO!k book is not going to capture the imagination; there needs to be colour, fun and a certain je ne sais quoi to stand out from the many other baby booksks on the market. Setting a book around Halloween and all things spooky may not seem to fill these criteria, but a little fear can sometimes make a small child surprisingly happy.

''BOO!'' is all about witches, warlocks, pumpkins and all things scary – but who makes these things fearsome? To a baby, a bright orange pumpkin is more inviting than frightening and a witch can be nice if given a smile. This is a simple card BOO!k book over 16 pages that has increasingly smaller holes cut into the page as you progress. These holes are actually the eyes of the next character. The left hand page introduces character, whilst the right hand page has a full colour illustration of them.

The book itself is made out of thick quality cardboard sheets that will take a battering from a baby and are wipe clean. This makes the BOO!k book an ideal sharing story for babies bored of just looking at number or letters. The quality of the book itself is simple and understated, something as easy as offsetting all the eyes works wonderfully so that each character has a series of colourful irises. Babies are attuned to looking at eyes and this book really draws their attention with its spooky peek-a-BOO!!

Jonathan Litton's story is not overly complex, so praise must be given to Fhiona Galloway's illustrations, not only because they look so good, but also because they don't evoke a bad reaction. The monsters and Ghoulies and manifestations on offer in 'BOO!' are colourful and jolly, not dark and scary. Galloway achieves this by filling the pages with brightness and smiles; something that you will be seeing from your baby or young toddler when you read the BOO!k book with them.

There are other friendly witches and warlocks out there to read about, who can forget this particularly bad witch; [[The Worst Witch to the Rescue by Jill Murphy|bad witch]] or the wizardy adventures of our Harry; [[Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J K Rowling|our Harry]]?