Scary scary Halloween

October 30, 9:39 AMChildren's Books ExaminerLori Calabrese

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Cover of Scary Scary Halloween by Eve Buntiing

I peer outside, there's something there That makes me shiver, spikes my hair. It must be Halloween.

Eve Bunting has teamed up with Jan Brett in this classic Halloween tale, Scary, Scary Halloween. There are a chock full of Halloween creatures to satisfy your young readers' Halloween appetitite from skeletons to ghosts to vampires and werewolves.

The rhyming text is told by an unknown narrator who fills us in on all of the Halloween happenings around her. Ghosts and witches are abound, who we later find out are trick or treaters, roaming the streets. But it's our narrator's eyes that pop out throughout the book, and later reveal that they're the real prowlers of the night...a group of cats who stalk the shadows, dark, unseen.

The rhymes are full of fun verses about Halloween and the images are sure to get kids excited about this ghoulish day. It's a Halloween book fit for the youngest readers that captures the true spookiness of October 31st.

Additional Information:
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Paperback: 40 pages
Publisher: Sandpiper (September 19, 1988)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 089919799X
ISBN-13: 978-0899197999
Source of book: Library