Great Halloween Books from Candlewick
Candlewick Press has a fresh new batch of Halloween-themed children’s books to help prepare your little one for the season!
And Then Comes Halloween is a beautiful picture book by Tom Brenner, with eye-catching illustrations by Holly Meade, done in watercolor and collage. They are so fantastic to look at (see what I mean at the book’s website, http://www.andthencomes.com)!
I love the concept of And Then Comes Halloween: the rhythm of life in the Fall signals to young children the approach of Halloween.
“When neighbors rake leaves into piles, and the sky is that certain deep blue…”
Each line is poetic and paints a vivid picture for the youngster who wonders, “is it almost time yet?”
Where’s My Mummy? by Carolyn Crimi, illustrated by John Manders, is a 32-page hardcover story in which Little Baby Mummy loses Big Mama Mummy in game of hide-and-shriek.
Little Baby Mummy encounters other Halloween characters like a skeleton and Dracula.
The illustrations are adorable, the text written in verse, and the idea of a young child (even a mummy-child) being afraid of night noises is completely relate-able!
A small dose of suspense, and a happy ending (spoiler alert: he DOES find Big Mama Mummy, don’t worry!) makes Where’s My Mummy? a good pick for ages 4 to 8.
Trick Or Treat? by Melanie Walsh is a darling lift-the-flap board book for ages 3 to 5.
Each page is simple and colorful, example: “Pumpkin has a…(lift the flap of a jack-o-lantern)…”scary face!”
The pictures are a colorful and friendly side of Halloween.
Dracula’s Tomb is a ghoulie “scrap book” of Dracula’s life, by Colin McNaughton.
This coffin-shaped hardcover book is 24 pages in length.
With a pop-up finale, Dracula’s Tomb was created to appeal to children up to age seven!
It might sound frightening, but Dracula’s Tomb is mostly comedy, as Dracula’s infancy and childhood are reminisced.Dracula’s Tomb is a great choice for a child who is into spooky things (like my son, who for some reason is extremely interested in ghosts and witches). This book isn’t enough to scare them, but it is enough to make them think it is supposed to be scary!
Thank you, Candlewick Press, for these fantastic new seasonal titles to help us ring in Halloween!
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30 September 2009, 10:46 am
To add to the little Halloween books above,
a cute little song to sing with little ones while trick or treating is sung to the tune of Hi Ho The Dairy O
Here it is:
To mummy we will go,
To mummy we will go,
Hi Ho Halloween O
To mummy we will go.
To mummy we will go,
To mummy we will go,
Just follow the old troll,
To mummy we will go.
To mummy we will go,
To mummy we will go,
We’ll bring her black coal,
To mummy we will go.
To mummy we will go,
To mummy we will go,
She’ll use it to cook bat boil,
To mummy we will go.
We’ll eat her bat boil,
We’ll eat her bat boil,
our tummies will feel terrible toil,
when we eat her bat boil.
To mummy let’s not go,
To mummy let’s not go,
top our bag with candy overflow,
To mummy let’s not go.