Showing posts with label Trick or Treat. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Trick or Treat. Show all posts

Thursday, October 30, 2014

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

Tuesday, October 28, 2014

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

Tuesday, October 14, 2014

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