Hello friends, and Happy Halloween! To celebrate this spooktacular holiday, our book today is Trick-Or-Treat: A Happy Haunter’s Halloween, written by Debbie Leppanen and illustrated by Tad Carpenter! This collection is filled with ghoulish and ghastly poems to get any little Bookworm in the holiday spirit!

Including 15 poems of various rhyme schemes and meters, the poems within Trick-Or-Treat are all themed around the spookiest and scariest holiday of the season, Halloween. Some creepy, some funny, and some that simply capture the Halloween spirit, each is accompanied by a clever illustrated spread and plenty of festive frights.

This is the second poem collection we’ve read, and I was once again pleased with how well the layout works for little readers. Each poem is fun-sized, and can be read one or two at a time, but the book can also be finished easily in a single sitting. The poems themselves definitely capture the Halloween vibe well – some even being a little creepier (though not too much so) than I had anticipated. The illustrations are very cute, yet often ridiculously dramatic. However, there was a slight issue of the art sometimes giving away the punchline or twist of the poem, which was a bit disappointing. Still, this was a frightfully fun collection to celebrate Halloween with, and we very much enjoyed it. Baby Bookworm approved!