Long shot. Does anyone know...

[tiggy114]

What book i'm refering to. It's a book i had as a young child (i'm 33 now!) and it's a pop uo movable book. All i can remember was it was different rooms in a monsters house/castle. And in the bedroom, baby monster was smearing mummies lipstick all over her face. And as you pulled the tab, the lipstick went up and down across her face. I loved this book soooo much and would love to find it again. Anyone know what it is???

the haunted house?

or this?

Jan Pienkowski, as linked to above, is definitely your go-to author for cool pop-up books. Can't specifically remember the lipstick bit and we had the Haunted House, so perhaps try the other first.

Did it have an octopus doing the washing up, and end with a box in the attic with something sawing its way out? A black cat whose yellow eyes moved?
Haunted house by JP.

It's not haunted house, I just looked through my copy, no baby lipstick monster.

Not those but haunted house looks cool though. May invest as a halloween treat for my toddler

Just googled J P. Oh my god i remember all those books! Meg the mog! They're sooooo expensive though i wouldn't dare let my DD touch one! I want them for me!

I remember this...the lipstick was all smeared on the baby with a sort of detachable mirror - I would have said Haunted House as we had that book but if someone has checked it then I'm not sure....unless its been edited out in newer versions....

I think i had that book, it had a witch in it!
Will research for you, because now my mind is boggled to what it was called!

Timewaste you are RIGHT! Thank god i'm not going mad! Sooo pleased someone else remembers. I'm gonna show my mum the cover of haunted house when i see her this aft, see if she recognises it.

Try this site

www.goodreads.com/list/tag/childrens

I still think it was Haunted House or maybe the same author published another book at the same time similar in style, but I remember the octopus at the kitchen sink- this thread has made me on an otherwise bland day....

My haunted house was from when I was a child , no lipstick monster.
Jan Pienkowski did do another book called "little Monsters" which had a monster wearing lipstick, and a mirror at the end.

In my spare time, that must be it...., like you I'm a fellow hoarder but I know those pop ups are with my brother as technically they were his....!

Thank you for the update

heading to amazon now

Little monsters requested at the library. Can't wait till it comes to see if it's the same one