Who's Frightened of Halloween - Hardcover

PreSchool-- It's not frightening--in fact, it projects very little mood--but preschoolers will be intrigued as they manipulate the pull-tabs and spinners of this Halloween book. All the standard images are present: bats, witches on brooms, black cats, ghosts, pumpkins, etc. Cut from paper in a simple, clean style, characters do their typical Halloween stunts upon manipulation: a spider lands on a trick-or-treater's head, a witch flies across the full moon. Text is brief, with a rhyming couplet for each double-page spread. The engineering isn't especially ingenious, but the book maintains a tone of simplicity, pitching to very young readers, and in this format the lack of mechanical complexity is actually a bonus as moving parts are easy for little hands to work successfully. Slightly unambitious, and with few surprises, the book will nevertheless involve children and will give them holiday motifs minus Halloween horror. --Liza Bliss, Leominster Public Library, MA
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