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K-3
Illustrated by
Roland Garrigue.
Kolar ably transforms classic nursery rhymes, preserving their cadences and their old-fashioned feel but making them humorously Halloween-themed: "Mary Had a Little Ghost"; "Zombie Miss Muffet" (who eats the spider). Garrigue's illustrations contain moody purple-and-black backgrounds, but the cheerful, loose-lined figures--and grinning ghosts--make it clear that the seasonal scariness is all in good fun.