Skelly's Halloween
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- $21.99
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- $21.99
Publisher Description
A playful skeleton lives for trick-or-treating in this charming, laugh-out-loud picture book perfect for the Halloween season.
Snap my fingers and rattle my bones—it’s Halloween!
Get ready for a spooktacular time with Skelly’s Halloween, a playful read aloud with a Humpty Dumpty-like hook, sure to become a Halloween staple.
Skelly B. Skeleton lives for Halloween: the trick-or-treating, the costumes…the TRICK-OR-TREATING! Then a tumble leaves him in pieces, and Skelly just might miss out on his favorite holiday. Luckily, a variety of animals—a snake, a chicken, a colony of ants—happen along to put Skelly back together again…to hilarious effect. It will take the help of some resourceful children to make things right and save the day.
With exuberant text from David Martin and bold art from Lori Richmond, Skelly’s Halloween is sure to delight trick-or-treaters of all ages.
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Even ghouls encounter Halloween wardrobe malfunctions. Soon after an eager skeleton named Skelly decides a ghost is the perfect Halloween costume, his bedsheet gets caught in a momentary updraft and he crashes to the ground in pieces. A snake, an ant colony (all wearing construction hats), and a chicken all take a turn at putting Skelly back together again, but each species has a different idea of what a reassembled skeleton should look like: "Wait a minute. I'm not supposed to have a tail," he tells the snake. Luckily, a group of human trick-or-treaters finds the sad pile of bones that Skelly has become ("I'm like Humpty Dumpty"), and after overcoming their initial fear ("Bones!" "And they talk? Run!"), they put Skelly to rights, using the diagram on one kid's skeleton costume as a guide. Generously scaled cartooning and sweet-natured humor make this title ideal for inaugural Halloween adventures. Ages 4 8.
