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Voyager Books, 2005. 1st Paperback Edition 10th Printing. Soft cover. New/No Jacket Issued. Kurt Cyrus color illustrations. CONDITION: NEW 2005 Voyager paperback, first PB edition, 10t printing. Delightful color illustrations by Kurt Cyrus. CONTENT: Stories in Rhyme deluxe. "There's a skeleton high in our sycamore tree,/High as high can be./He was hung up there by my sister and me,/High in our sycamore tree." With this spooky refrain, Bunting opens her ambiguously creepy tale. Strange things have been happening since the children brought the skeleton home, named it, and hung it up. The dog and rooster won't go near the tree, and the bones rattle and chatter in the dark, gusty night wind. The story, told in rhyme, keeps readers on the edge of their seats: is the skeleton made of plastic, as the children believe, or is it real? Cyrus's detailed, realistic illustrations, done in scratchboard and watercolor, are appropriately dark and are a perfect complement to the subtly scary mood of the text. Though… Read More

Scholastic Pess, 1998. 1st Paperback Edition 11th Printing. Soft cover. New/No Jacket Issued. Deborah Nourse Lattimore color illus.. CONDITION: NEW 1998 Scholastic large paperback, first paperback printing, 11th printing. Devilish clever and cute color illustrations by the Author. You've probably heard the story of Cinderella, that beautiful girl who hated being dirty and dressed in rage. Well, you won't find her at the Witches' Halloween Ball. Loving dirt more than anything, the blonde-haired witch Hazel manages to follow her stepmother and stepsisters to the Halloween Witches' Ball, where she meets her true love, the equally messy Prince Alarming, in a zany version of the classic fairy tale.

New York: Peter Pauper Press, 2015. 1st Edition Printing Unknown. Hardcover. New/No Jacket Issued. Martha Day Zschock B&W illustrations. CONDITION: NEW 2015 Peter Pauper Press hardcover over spiral binding, first edition, no printing given. B&W illustrations by Martha Day Zschock. A flashlight is all you need to delight kids at Halloween or any other bedtime night. CONTENT: " It's dark and past time to tell Dad, ''Goodnight!'' But things look so scary when I turn off the light." Put your little one's mind at ease at bedtime with this storybook in verse! PUBLISHER'S NOTE: For best results, use this shadow book with a small, single-bulb light source. A small pen light, other single-LED light, or the light on the back of a smart phone is recommended. Multi-LED flashlights are not recommended. If you have trouble getting a clear image, try moving your light closer to or farther away from the page. Shine the light (not included) through the book's seven transparent windows to cast shadow images on the wall… Read More

Little, Brown, 1994. 1st Paperback Edition 1st Printing. Soft cover. New/No Jacket Issued. Marc Brown color illustrations. CONDITION: NEW 1994 Little, Brown large paperback, first PB edition, first printing. Tons of horrible, funny, gruesome (not really) color illustrations by the Author. Stories in Rhyme. CONTENT: OK, my favorite is "How to Scare Your Friends" which tells you eyeballs - use peeled grapes; fingers? use green beans, etc. An illustrated collection of spooky stories, poems, and riddles including a humorous array of ghosts, monsters, ghouls, and witches. Reviewer: " This is an excellent collection of poems and rhymes edited and illustrated by that friendly aardvark Arthur's creator Marc Brown. The drawings are in the same style as the Arthur stories and some of Arthur's friends even make appearances lightening the mood even more from scary to silly. The ominous looking but genial Binky Barnes stars in an especially cute poem. My favorite nightmare defeating rhyme "The Adventures of… Read More