Halloween Hoots and Howls » (Reprint)

Joan Horton has always loved black cats, scary stories, and trick-or-treating. Each Halloween a grinning jack-o’-lantern lights a path to her kitchen door for the neighborhood ghosts and goblins. She is the author of several books for children including Hippopotamus Stew and Other Silly Animal Poems, and lives in Glastonbury, Connecticut.

JoAnn Adinolfi is also a fan of Halloween. Working on this book enabled her to draw some of her favorite subjects—monsters. Ms. Adinolfi has illustrated many books for children, including Hippopotamus Stew and Other Silly Animal Poems and The Perfect Thanksgiving, available from Square Fish. She lives in Oakland, California, with family.

There’s going to be a party. You’re invited one and all.

We’ll be waiting there to greet you at the Ghost and Goblin Ball.

Publishers Weekly

In zesty, candy-corny poems from a first-time author, a witch places an ad for a "Turbo broomstick (color--jet)/ With dual exhausts. FM cassette." Dr. Frankenstein shops for heads of cabbage and ears of corn, and a top-notch "Halloweeny Quiz" offers 10 diverting riddle-couplets that work as verse and as a game. The mixed-media cartoons, on white or airbrush-speckled backgrounds, anticipate but never upstage the inventive punch lines. Ages 4-7. (Oct.) Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information.