(2) K-3 Illustrated by Curtis Jobling. A boy is in bed "when I thought I heard a knocking...." He goes downstairs, looks out the window...and "two empty eyeholes stared right back!" The skeleton climbs the stairs to the boy's bedroom and announces what he's after: clothes to cover up his bones. The suspenseful rhyme bounces along, delivering both shivers and laughs, and the cartoonlike illustrations help diffuse the scariness.

Reviewer: Susan Dove Lempke | Horn Book Magazine Issue: November, 2003