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Boo Who?
By Lola Shaefer. Published by Little Simon, $9.99. Available through Amazon.ca.
With simple rhymes, big bold photos and smiling children all dressed up for Halloween, this fold-out book will definitely inspire children to act like monsters, cackle like witches and fly like vampires.
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Trick or Treat, Calico!
By Karma Wilson. Published by Little Simon. $8.99. Available through Amazon.ca.
The friends are out trick or treating, but Calico is nowhere to be found. Little ones will love listening to the descriptive rhymes, looking at the colourful drawings and lifting the flaps to find where Calico is hiding. Definitely a book children will want to read over and over again.
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Whooo's That?
By Kay Winters. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $13.99. Available through Amazon.ca.
Cheery pumpkins are ripe for the flipping in this lift-the-flap book that reveals who’s doing what on All Hallows' Eve. With skeletons a-dancing and costumed horses a-prancing, each page bursts with a surprise picture and an opportunity for little ones to tell mom and dad whooo’s that.
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Hush, Baby Ghostling
By Andrea Beaty. Published by Margaret K. McElderry Books, $17.50. Available through Amazon.ca.
A mother ghost tries to put her little one to sleep by telling him to dream of midnight skies filled with bats and banshee cries, of monsters playing and of ghoulies swaying. Such a lovely read it’s hard to know who’ll enjoy it most, us or our kids.
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Over in the Hollow
By Rebecca Dickinson. Published by Chronicle Books, $18.95. Available through Amazon.ca.
Inspired by the poem “Over in the Meadow” by Olive E. Wadsworth, this beautifully illustrated book takes children on a counting journey through the hollow to meet the spooky residents, including lurching mummies, swinging Frankensteins and glowing jack-o’-lanterns. Children will no doubt repeat the monster-speak, from hissing to howling, and be wide-eyed with each new page.
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Never Say Boo!
By Robin Pulver. Published by Thomas Allen & Son, $22.95. Available through Amazon.ca.
At first we thought Never Say Boo! would be too old for younger children, but it’s actually our toddlers who have asked for it repeatedly, rather than the school-aged kids. Who knew? When a ghost moves to town, all he wants to do is fit in with the normal kids. But it’s hard to do when the lesson’s words all start with the letters B-O-O.
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Monster Sleepover!
By Scott Beck. Published by Abrams Books, $19.50. Available through Amazon.ca.
Sometimes it takes a child to get an adult to appreciate a book. When we first read Monster Sleepover! we thought, “huh?” But it had the kids laughing. Why? They were entranced by the secondary story – the cartoon images and blurbs – rather than just the running text. And so, on second reading (and third, and fourth, and...), we’ve had no choice but to change our minds and to also come to enjoy the silly skeleton who eats a worm rather than an apple, a robot who attempts to make pancakes, and a mummy who refuses to go to sleep because that’s all he’s done for centuries.
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