Welcome to Monster Town

Only when the sun goes down do the monsters and ghouls head to their busy lives in Monster Town. In this freakish town, no one is left out and everyone is very good at what they do. Zombies carry coffee cups and brief cases on their way to work. Ghost writers adhere to deadlines at the Monster Town Gazette. Little ghouls and girls learn science at school with Professor Igor. Even King Kong finds a way to contribute. He holds his blueprints as he engineers a new building downtown. Not far from the building site, Wolfman Jacques cuts hair at his barbershop. Mummies, bats, spiders and a giant squid all find a place to fit in here in Monster Town. Heshka's illustrations are vivid to the imagination as he captures the essence of all the infamous stars of nightmare legends. However, without a plot or focus on one particular character, this Halloween kids book is simply an imaginative catalog of popular, silly, freaks and ghouls. A fun Halloween kids book for your little ghoul. This Halloween kids book is for reading levels ages 4-8. Leave us your comments. Your feedback is greatly appreciated. Let us know what other children's book you would like to have reviewed. Share this post with your family and friends.

Welcome to Monster Town

Even Monsters Need Haircuts

When a father closes up his barbershop for the night, his little boy secretly re-opens it and takes over the hair cutting duties. But he is not cutting hair for humans, his customers are monsters. When a human customer suddenly shows up the monsters take to their hiding places. Kids will love the clever illustrations, including a werewolf getting a trim with gardening shears and Medusa having her snakes braided and trying to find the monsters in their "hiding places." This a perfect compliment to those yearly Halloween readings and when kids are just in the mood for a good silly story. A Halloween kids book that all children will enjoy. This Halloween kids book is for children reading levels ages 4-8. Leave us your comments. Your feedback is greatly appreciated. Let us know what other children's books you would like to have reviewed. Share this post with your friends.

Even Monsters Need Haircuts

Moonlight: The Halloween Cat

Come follow this black cat Moonlight as she wanders through town and enjoys her favorite evening of the year. Smiling pumpkins, the comfortable lap of a man made of straw, children in costumes, a full moon, and wild animals such as owls and raccoons are all welcome sights. The oversize Halloween kids book with its lush colors make this a Halloween treat. One double-page spread shows a street of houses with witches, a princess, a bee and others going door-to-door for trick-or-treat while another shows the cat from the back perched on a branch and looking at a huge moon ("yellow and wide"). It is perfect for preschool story time and for parents who are introducing their young children to this holiday. It is positive and upbeat, focusing on the light side and leaving out the spooky. The text is short and simple, yet expressive. "Pumpkins smile at her. Straw laps welcome her." This will be very popular with the preschool set. This Halloween kids book is for children reading levels ages 4-8. It is especially fit for children of preschool age. Leave us your comments. Your feedback is greatly appreciated. Let us know what other kids books you would like to have reviewed. Share this post with your family and friends.

Moonlight: The Halloween Cat

Shake Dem Halloween Bones

This is a Halloween book for group sharing and joining in. Children will sing and dance and chant the refrain as they shake their little bones with the hip-hop rhyming words and swirling pictures. The rhythm is infectious. This should keep the story time set jiggling to the last scoo-bee-doo-bee-doo-wah. Yeah! This Halloween kids book is for children reading levels ages 4-8. Leave us your comments. Your feedback is greatly appreciated. Let us know what other kids books you would like to have reviewed. Share this post with your friends.

Shake Dem Halloween Bones

AlphaOops: H is for Halloween

In this sequel to AlphaOops! The Day Z Went First (Candlewick, 2006), Kontis and Kolar reintroduce readers to their cast of alphabet players. The book begins with the letter Z directing the letter H to start the show because, “Halloween can't start with any other letter.” Appearing entirely out of sequence, the individual letters then make brief appearances dressed up as characters that begin with their respective letters: “Z is for zombie. N is for nightmare.” The tentative letter B attempts to shine, but he continually encounters problems; at one point his buccaneer costume is taken by P (Pirate) and in another scene a blackbird sits on his head. B perseveres and steals the show by delivering the final line of the play, “B is for…BOO!” Kontis's text is rhythmic and comical, and readers who are comfortable with the alphabet will delight in the silliness of this story. Kolar's illustrations are imbued with a sense of nighttime theater magic, and the slightly muted jewel-tone hues set the scene perfectly. A winsome union of humorous text and art, this light, fresh book is an ideal addition to holiday collections. This Halloween kids book is for children reading levels ages 4-8. Leave us your comments. Your feedback is greatly appreciated. Let us know what other kids books you would like to have reviewed. Share this post with your friends.

AlphaOops: H is for Halloween

Trick or Treat, Smell My Feet

Having packed his Martian Space Pilot costume in his bag, Gilbert, the hedgehog introduced in Roses Are Pink, Your Feet Really Stink (Morrow, 1996), trots off to school for a holiday parade and party. Imagine his dismay when he discovers that he has taken his sister Lola's sack and her pink ballerina outfit by mistake. As five of his classmates also decided to be Martian Space Pilots, it's not an unmitigated disaster so he squeezes into the tutu and toughs it out, encountering surprise but not a trace of derision from his peers. Well, it could happen. De Groat moves her human-proportioned animal cast between a comfortable suburban neighborhood dotted with colorful autumn leaves and a school restroom where the boys change clothes. However skeptical they may be of the mild reaction to Gilbert's costume, young viewers will enjoy the glimpses of loudly colored underwear (plus, for many girls, exotic bathroom plumbing). Despite severely undersized tights, Gilbert isn't made to look all that ludicrous or uncomfortable. Although Lola reclaims her costume for the evening's trick-or-treating, she and her brother at least tinker with gender stereotypes, and that may plant seeds in some readers' minds. This Halloween kids book is for children reading levels ages 4-8. Leave us your comments. Your feedback is greatly appreciated. Let us know what other kids books you would like to have reviewed. Share this post with your friends.

Trick or Treat, Smell My Feet

Weirdo Halloween: Special Edition (Goosebumps Horrorland)

R.L. Stine's books have sold more than 300 million copies, making him one of the most popular children's authors in history. Besides Goosebumps, R.L. Stine has written series including: Fear Street, Rotten School, Mostly Ghostly, The Nightmare Room, and Dangerous Girls. R.L. Stine lives in New York with his wife, Jane, and his King Charles spaniel, Minnie. If you think Halloween could not get any weirder than this, then you must be dead wrong. After two kids stumble into Jonathan Chiller's shop in HorrorLand, they will soon discover that a magical Floig (a stuffed animated creature with buggy frog eyes) belongs to an alien called a Weirdo, whom they later meet in the real world, where the two kids, Meg and Chris, are in grave danger. When the children discover that Bim the Weirdo feeds on human emotions, they realize how easy it will be to make the pesky alien disappear forever. After Bim returns to his home planet, Meg returns to HorrorLand on Halloween to play a scary game for Jonathan Chiller. If she wins, Meg gets to go home. But if she loses, she must stay in HorrorLand forever. Someone is stealing Meg's identity. It turns out that the Meg's twin is a robot and so Meg returns safely home where she belongs with her family and friends. What does Jonathan Chiller have planned for all of these kids who will return to Jonathan's Chiller House to collect their payment? Find out in the next story ark! And prepare to be scared! This Halloween kids book is for reading levels ages 9-12. Leave us your comments. Your feedback is greatly appreciated. Let us know what other children's books you would like to have reviewed. Check out our selection of Halloween kids books on sale now. Share this post with your family and friends.

Weirdo Halloween

Trixie The Halloween Fairy

With this "Rainbow Magic" series, the author seeks to tap into current fascination with fairies. This "special edition" series book has particular appeal, focusing as it does on the fun, exciting holiday of Halloween. Rachel and Kirsty are looking ahead to trick-or-treating as fairies, but their plans are quickly interrupted by the mean spirited antics of Jack Frost. Frost had his goblins steal three magical pieces of Halloween candy from Trixie, the Halloween Fairy. Fortunately, they lost the candy in the process; at least they do not have it! Unfortunately, unless Trixie can find the candies and return them to Fairyland before Frost's minions find them, Halloween will be ruined! That is where Rachel and Kirsty come in. Trixie needs the girls' help to find the chocolate bar, candy corn, and caramel apple. The pacing of this Halloween kids book is slow and the action is surprisingly passive. The true hero of the book seems to be Trixie's Fairyland kitten Moonlight. Still, fairy loving readers are likely to enjoy this book, and the low cost might justify its purchase as an appealing holidayspecific option for middle readers. This Halloween children's book is for reading levels ages 9-12. Leave us your comments. Your feedback is greatly appreciated. Let us know what other books you would like to have reviewed. Don't miss out on our Halloween kids book sale.

Trixie The Halloween Fairy