“I’m looking for a series of picture books, at least I think it was a series, I know there were at least two. I read them both in the mid-late 90s. The first one was about a haunted house or hotel and each double page spread showed a cross-section of the building with the inhabitants of each room visible. As you moved through the book the story within each room progressed and the characters moved from room to room and the stories spilled into each other. By the very last double page spread I remember all hell had broken loose and the building was (I think) starting to collapse.
The second book was a similar concept except it was set on a steamboat carrying passengers on the sea. Again, you could see all the ship’s passengers. I remember that at some point a magic potion was accidentally spilled into the ship’s boiler and the ship grew legs and started to walk on land.
I think the books were wordless.
Any help is much appreciated.
Stump the Bookseller
New format, same book stumper solving.
A previously solved stumper listed several books in this vein, maybe one is yours
http://w1.loganberrybooks.com/stumpthebookseller/?p=553
This is definitely Alastair Graham’s Full Moon Soup; The Fall of the Hotel Splendide, and the sequel, Full Moon Afloat.
Be careful about which edition you get: the original Full Moon Soup is wordless and just focuses on finding all the details and jokes in the amazing illustrations, but it was re-released with some terrible rhyming text telling you what details to find and they cover up parts of the illustrations with green goo graphics to make room for the text.
Yep, that’s the one! Fantastic, thank you very much for your help.