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40 pp.
| Cavendish
| September, 1998
|
TradeISBN 0-7614-5023-8$$15.95
(4)
K-3
Illustrated by
Jeff Spackman.
The requisite Halloween ensemble--witches, ghosts, skeletons, bats, and ghouls--make their appearance in this uneven collection of twenty-seven poems and limericks. The combination of humor and horror, however, will surely appeal to many children. The acrylic paintings in appropriately dusky hues come to life with a nightmarish but often campy cast of spooks.