One week til Halloween, and because of the shared schedule, it's the first time in about 10 years that I will NOT be doing a storytime on Halloween. So I did some really cute Halloween prep books this week instead.
And Then Comes Halloween
Tom Brenner, illustrated by Holly Meade
ISBN: 9780763636593
This is an excellent Halloween book. It has a lot of atmospheric fall details, and lots of focus on the seasons changing and on very generic fall decorating with corn stalks and scarecrows, and only really gets into the Halloween-specific stuff right at the end. The focus is also on the creative process of thinking up and creating your own costume, and on the community fun of trick-or-treating in a group and sorting and swapping candy together. Very lighthearted and informative, with really lovely language.
Duck and Goose Find a Pumpkin
Tad Hills
ISBN: 9780375858130 (board book)
I was lucky that this was a very small group, because this is a pretty small board book format. Duck and Goose and Thistle appear in this really short story, and I ask for a lot of audience interaction to drag it out a bit longer. Thistle has a very nice pumpkin, and Duck and Goose decide they want one too, so they go in search of it, with not much luck until Thistle reappears with a hint.
Happy Halloween, Biscuit!
Alyssa Satin Capucilli, illustrated by Pat Schories
ISBN: 9780694012206 (page-end-flaps)
Biscuit and his little girl are prepping for Halloween, which means the little girl is prepping, and Biscuit is getting into messes and generally being an adorable pest, revealed by the flaps on each of the far left side pages. Sweet and gentle and with cute little "mysteries" to solve or questions to ponder on each spread.
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Tuesday, October 24, 2017
Tuesday, October 28, 2014
Tuesday Storytime: Halloween!
I love Halloween storytimes!
We started off with the delightful Zombelina, moved through the equally new and strikingly illustrated Ten Orange Pumpkins, and ended on a lighthearted note with Happy Halloween, Biscuit.
Zombelina
Kristyn Crow, illustrated by Molly Idle (Flora and the Flamingo)
ISBN: 9780802728036
Sweet green zombie gets stage fright at her dance recital, until her spooky family arrives to cheer.
This book is ADORABLE. I will probably read it on non-Halloween nights just as a dancing or performance book. (Maybe with Rock n Roll Mole?) Zombelina loves dancing at home, and her loving parents finally take her out to buy supplies and start in dance classes. Her classmates are a little weirded out by this limb-losing ballerina, but her teacher is accepting and encouraging, and she blooms. Until the night of her recital, where she gets stage fright, and starts acting like an actual zombie and scares her classmates and audience away. Her family arrives and cheers her on in a more familiar way, and she performs beautifully, then is whisked home for a celebratory dinner. Boatloads of wordplay and clever jokes with the illustrations had the parents laughing, while the kids seemed to enjoy our perky adorable heroine.
Ten Orange Pumpkins: A Counting Book
Stephen Savage
ISBN: 9780803739383
Already reviewed.
This one worked very well in the middle spot. I got through the spider with aplomb (I thought) and the kids especially liked the alligators in the river and the skeleton pirate crew.
Happy Halloween, Biscuit
Alyssa Satin Capucilli, illustrated by Pat Schories
ISBN: 9780694012206
Lift-the-flap book showing Biscuit the puppy hiding or getting into minor trouble on Halloween.
Super cute and as inoffensive as it is possible to be and still cover dressing up in costume and trick-or-treating. Biscuit and his little girl go out to the pumpkin patch to make a jack-o-lantern, pick out costumes to wear, meet costumed friends, and get treats from a family-member's house before going back home to bed. Very cute, and one of the parents checked it out after storytime!
We started off with the delightful Zombelina, moved through the equally new and strikingly illustrated Ten Orange Pumpkins, and ended on a lighthearted note with Happy Halloween, Biscuit.
Zombelina
Kristyn Crow, illustrated by Molly Idle (Flora and the Flamingo)
ISBN: 9780802728036
Sweet green zombie gets stage fright at her dance recital, until her spooky family arrives to cheer.
This book is ADORABLE. I will probably read it on non-Halloween nights just as a dancing or performance book. (Maybe with Rock n Roll Mole?) Zombelina loves dancing at home, and her loving parents finally take her out to buy supplies and start in dance classes. Her classmates are a little weirded out by this limb-losing ballerina, but her teacher is accepting and encouraging, and she blooms. Until the night of her recital, where she gets stage fright, and starts acting like an actual zombie and scares her classmates and audience away. Her family arrives and cheers her on in a more familiar way, and she performs beautifully, then is whisked home for a celebratory dinner. Boatloads of wordplay and clever jokes with the illustrations had the parents laughing, while the kids seemed to enjoy our perky adorable heroine.
Ten Orange Pumpkins: A Counting Book
Stephen Savage
ISBN: 9780803739383
Already reviewed.
This one worked very well in the middle spot. I got through the spider with aplomb (I thought) and the kids especially liked the alligators in the river and the skeleton pirate crew.
Happy Halloween, Biscuit
Alyssa Satin Capucilli, illustrated by Pat Schories
ISBN: 9780694012206
Lift-the-flap book showing Biscuit the puppy hiding or getting into minor trouble on Halloween.
Super cute and as inoffensive as it is possible to be and still cover dressing up in costume and trick-or-treating. Biscuit and his little girl go out to the pumpkin patch to make a jack-o-lantern, pick out costumes to wear, meet costumed friends, and get treats from a family-member's house before going back home to bed. Very cute, and one of the parents checked it out after storytime!
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