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, … Continue reading Trick-Or-Treat: A Happy Haunter’s Halloween (Debbie Leppanen)
Hello, friends! We’re continuing our countdown to Halloween with a review of Disney Parks Presents: The Haunted Mansion, featuring the classic theme park song by Buddy Baker and Xavier Atencio and illustrations by James Gilleard! Along with the included CD, this musical picture book takes readers on a spooky journey through Disney’s infamous Haunted Mansion. … Continue reading Disney Parks Presents: The Haunted Mansion (Buddy Baker & Xavier Atencio)
Hello, friends! Our book today is I’m The Scariest Thing In The Castle by Kevin Sherry, a spooky and silly story that’s pure Halloween fun. Meet the vampire bat! He’s the scariest thing in the castle! He’s scarier than the spiders and the ghosts, scarier than the werewolf and the witch, scarier than the mummy … Continue reading I’m The Scariest Thing In The Castle (Kevin Sherry)
(Note: This review was delayed due to a family illness) Halloween Week, Day 7: Happy Halloween! Unfortunately, we spent our Spooky Day this year feeling very, VERY under the weather, so no costumes or trick-or-treating for us. However, we did get to celebrate in one way: by reading our last Halloween Week book, Halloween Sky … Continue reading Halloween Sky Ride (Elizabeth Spurr)
(Note: This review was delayed due to a family illness) Halloween Week, Day 6: Hello, everyone! Today, we read The Hungry Ghosts, written by Julius Lester and illustrated by Geraldo Valério, an strange and magical tale of a little boy and his new, ghostly friends. Malcolm David is sleeping in his room one night when … Continue reading The Hungry Ghosts (Julius Lester)
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