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Title: A Creepy Countdown by Charlotte Huck, Jos. A. Smith ISBN: 0-688-17717-4 Publisher: Harpercollins Juvenile Books Pub. Date: 30 September, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (3 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: three and a half
Comment: My daughter, 3 and a half, really enjoys this book. The narrative counts up to ten and then back down, with each page corresponding to a certain nuber of Halloween images-- scarecrows, jack-o-lanters, bats, witches, etc. The artwork, woodcut-looking vignettes that seem to have been scratched out of blackened paper, is crisp and very expressive, eerie without extravagance and yet truly edgy here and there--that vacant but sentient scarecrow, for example, or the chicken legs on the witches' house, or the startled faces on the book's center page. But really, the book is just a fun, aesthetic exploration of one holiday, without anything lasting or engaging about it except for that visual experience. It's excellent among Halloween books, more so for not actually forcing some dopey plot on us, but that's the end. I know I'll look forward to circulating the book into our reading cycle each October, but aside from then.... So it's just shy of 4 stars for me. 3 stars is too low, so we'll say 3 and a half, like my daughter.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Creepy Countdown
Comment: A Creepy Countdown involves a scarecrow, two toads, three jack-o-lanterns, four owls, five bats, six witches, seven ghosts, eight cats, nine skeletons and ten mice. I assure you that you're little children will be amazed by the little details of the pencil drawings. What I liked was all of the little grave stones. I was amazed by the excellent rhyming. And if you look very closely at the sides of each page, you can see masks dangling over the trees. Be on the 'look-out' for Jos. A. Smith's drawing book named The Pen and Ink Book. I hope that you have a extraordinary Halloweenific time this Halloween. Boo!
Rating: 4
Summary: CREEPY COUNTING
Comment: THIS IS AN EXCELLENT HALLOWEEN THEMED COUNTING BOOK. WHILE NOT TIED DIRECTLY TO HALLOWEEN, HUCK'S VERSES AND SMITH'S ILLUSTRATIONS TOUCH ALL THE SCARY BASES - A SCARECROW, TOADS, JACK-O-LANTERNS, OWLS, BATS, WITCHES, GHOSTS, CATS, SKELETONS, AND MICE - IT'S ALL HERE. THE PICTURES ARE TAME ENOUGH NOT TO FRIGHTEN OFF THE YOUNGEST OF LEARNERS WHILE BEING DETAILED ENOUGH TO ENGROSS THE REST. I SPOTTED THIS BOOK WHILE BROWSING THE BOOKSTORE. DID I BUY IT FOR MY CHILDREN? NOPE, THEY'RE ALREADY TEENAGERS. I BOUGHT IT FOR ME AS HALLOWEEN IS MY FAVORITE HOLIDAY AND I LOVED THE ILLUSTRATIONS. AND YES, I COULD ALREADY COUNT. HAPPY HALLOWEEN !
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Title: Pumpkin Eye by Denise Fleming ISBN: 0805066810 Publisher: Henry Holt & Company, Inc. Pub. Date: September, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Ten Timid Ghosts by Jennifer Barrett O'Connell ISBN: 0439158044 Publisher: Cartwheel Books Pub. Date: September, 2000 List Price(USD): $3.50 |
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Title: Rattlebone Rock by Sylvia Andrews, Jennifer Plecas ISBN: 0064434842 Publisher: HarperTrophy Pub. Date: 30 September, 1997 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: In A Dark, Dark Wood : An Old Tale with a New Twist by David A. Carter ISBN: 0689852800 Publisher: Little Simon Pub. Date: 01 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: Pumpkin Jack by Will Hubbell ISBN: 0807566659 Publisher: Albert Whitman & Co Pub. Date: September, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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