Shadow Forest
Matt Haig
From the bestselling author of A Boy Called Christmas, The Girl Who Saved Christmas, Father Christmas and Me and The Truth Pixie.
Winner of the Gold Smarties Prize, the Blue Peter Book Award and shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal
Samuel Blink is the hero of this story, but he doesn’t know it yet.
Right now, he and his sister Martha are in the back of his parents’ car. He has no idea a giant log is about to fall from the sky and change his life forever. He doesn’t know that he and Martha will be forced to move to Norway and eat their Aunt Eda’s smelly brown cheese. He hasn’t the slightest clue Martha will disappear into the Shadow Forest – a forest full of one-eyed trolls, deadly Truth Pixies, a shadow-stealing witch and the evil Changemaker.
Samuel Blink doesn’t know any of this. So don’t tell him. It might ruin the book . . .
An eerie, funny and exciting fairytale from multi-award-winning author Matt Haig.
‘Fascinating and magical . . . Outstanding’ The Times
Reviews
i thought it was brilliant bring the reader more interest like saying read to find out more which gives a scary emotion to the reader this made me happy thank you matt haig for writing this truly extraordinary book
Anonymous 30.09.2022
I liked Matha
Doctor Beryl Satellite 17.06.2022
Interesting book.
Anonymous 04.02.2022
Absolutely brilliant, and it also has lots of fun and exciting moments.
Earl Gonzo Submarine 21.04.2021
I think Shadow Forest is a very good book and my teacher in school read it to my class. It's fictional and my favourite characters are Martha and Aunt Eda. I would recommend it to everyone over 8 years old because it is funny and heartwarming at the same time.
Anonymous 08.10.2020
This book was full of twist and turns. My favourite character was Troll the left and troll the right. I would recommend it to someone who likes cliffhangers...
Anonymous 09.09.2020
loved it and would recommend it
Duchess Honeycomb Bookmark 26.08.2020
This is a very adventurous book and it expresses the characters feelings and how they feel. My favourite character is Martha. I would recommend it to anyone who loves adventurous stories
Anonymous 24.08.2020
This book is about when Samuel and Martha's parents die they go to live in Norway with their aunt Eda they are told to stay away from the forest but the children go in anyway.They are attacked by creatures that have had their shadows taken away by the evil changemaker to stop them from ever returning from the forest.My favourite character was the Tomtegub because he sounded funny looking and sang happy songs.I would definitely recommend this book to adventure lovers.
Anonymous 06.08.2020
I absolutely loved Shadow Forest. It had so many twists and turns that I found it hard to stop reading! It is about two siblings named Samuel and Martha who's parents get squashed in by a falling log. They have to Norway to live with their aunt, Aunt Eda. Next to aunt Eda's house there is a dark forest. You know how kids are, they just had to go in...
Anonymous 27.07.2020
I loved it so did my nan and grandad
Anonymous 05.08.2019
I loved this book because it was really adventurous and lot's of action it also was really strange and there were lot's of characters and some of them were creatures that the author made up in the end everything chagened because the creatures were bad but now they are good.
Anonymous 21.08.2017
adventurous yet creepy
Anonymous 21.12.2015
This book was absolutely terrifying. I think one of my favourite bits was with the truth pixie and how the change maker changed everything. It was an absolutely terrifying read making it absolutely terrifying and being absolutely terrifying made it an absolutely terrifying book. I enjoyed the absolutely terrifying-ness because it was absolutely terrifying.
Anonymous 01.09.2014
