BOOK REPORT halloween night

Halloween Night

By Marjorie Dennis Murray

Illustrated by Brandon Dorman

Twas Halloween night and all through the house

Every creature was stirring including the mouse

The walls were aflutter with little brown bats

While hordes of black spiders crept out of the cracks

By the fire in the kitchen, the witch stirred her brew;

To make it more smelly, she threw in a shoe.

There's something irresistible about this Halloween take on everyone's favorite holiday read-aloud, The Night Before Christmas. Halloween Night twists the original tale of golly old St. Nick into a not-so-spooky ghost story complete with all the traditional Halloween fixins'--ghosts, witches, spiders... You'll love the lush illustrations as much as the imaginative text. Short and sweet, it may just become a Halloween holiday tradition.

Here are some other great Halloween book suggestions, all available online at amazon.com:

The Halloween Kid by Rhode Montijo

Room on the Broom by Julia Donaldson

By the Light of the Halloween Moon by Caroline Stutson

Pumpkin Soup by Helen Cooper

Boo to You Too! by Elizabeth Rodger

Contributed by Danyelle