2013 Halloween Reviews by Andrea Lampman of Green Bean Books
Here is a list of kids book reviews for Halloween 2013, by our friends at Green Bean Books in Portland, OR. We’d love to hear your thoughts! Please comment with YOUR favorite books for Halloween!
Spooky Spooky Spooky! by Cathy MacLennan (BB $6.95)
Howling cats and webby webs, velvety bats and spider legs are all on parade in this adorable, spooky (but never scary!) Halloween story! The moonlit, glowing illustrations are just as playful as the rhyming text. Sure to delight even the littlest trick-or-treaters!
Click, Clack, Boo: A Tricky Treat, by Doreen Cronin & Betsy Lewin (HB $16.99)
Farmer Brown does not like Halloween. He does not care for costumes or candy corn or things that go bump in the night. If only he could hide under the covers in his footie pajamas from all those spooky, quackling noises! Wait… quackling noises? Featuring everyone’s favorite farm animals and one silly, scheming Duck, Click Clack Boo is the perfect Halloween read-aloud!
Zombelina, by Kristyn Crow (HB $16.95)
Zombelina is the finest dancer in Madame Maladroit’s ballet class. She can spin like a specter and glide like a ghost, and her arabesques are bewitching! Now if only she could get over her wicked case of stage fright. A sweet and silly story told entirely in rhyme, Zombelina and her lovable family of spooks will have you cheering, Encore!
The Spooky Box, by Mark Gonyea (HB $14.99)
That simple black rectangle at the door might look like a regular old box, but what if it’s a… spooky box? Will it be full of candy and cake or bats and bones?! Kids will have a blast guessing the contents of a simple black box in this delightfully illustrated, open-ended story about the power of imagination. Spooky or innocent, the possibilities are endless!
