Halloween Forest
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- $10.99
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- $10.99
Publisher Description
Cat bones, rat bones, and bat bones illustrate this spooky Halloween adventure, written by newbery-Honor-winning author Marion Dane Bauer.
If you take your trick-or-treat sack and venture into the dark woods on Halloween night, you'll find cat bones, rat bones, and bat bones--and all are looking at YOU! "Take care! Beware! Despair!" the bone creatures will cry. "You can bet you've just met your worst nightmare!" What will you do? Cry? Sigh?
NO! Because you're too tough / to worry about stuff / like the rattle / and prattle / of bones!
Told in unmetered rhymed verse, this Halloween adventure is a real treat.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A child makes a Halloween journey in this evocative story with genuinely chilling illustrations. Leaving town by moonlight, the girl discovers a "forest of bones," filled with skeletons: "Bat bones, cat bones, rat bones, and all are looking at you." Using pen and India ink, Shelley constructs spidery bone trees, densely populated with skeletal creatures that scamper and hang upside-down. While the bones cry out "Take care! Beware! Despair!" Bauer underscores the girl's bravery and power as she banishes the bones (and nets a haul of candy). The nightmarish aesthetic touches on how a child's perception is shaped by imagination, especially on a spooky night. Ages 4 8.
