Shivery Shades of Halloween
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- $4.99
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- $4.99
Publisher Description
A rollicking, rhyming Halloween romp—in every color!
What color is Halloween? Why, it’s as green as an “eerie glow, evil grin, vile brew, clammy skin,” as white as “cobwebs clinging, a misty trail, a skull, a spook, a face gone pale . . .” Children will learn their colors as they follow a cute little creature on his adventure through haunted halls, moonlit forests . . . perhaps even a Halloween party! Jimmy Pickering’s stylized settings and adorable monsters add a blast of colorful creepy-crawliness that will make kids giggle. Who knew that learning colors could be such spooky fun?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Impish monsters, ghosts, bats, pumpkins, and vampires bring dashes of humor to this color primer, which opens with the question, "What color is Halloween?" In the pages that follow, answers come in the form of often-chilling rhymes that evoke the moods of 10 colors. "Halloween is black. Cat and cauldron,/ Cloak and hat,/ Mouth of cave,/ Vampire bat,/ Inky-slinky, hairy-scary,/ creepy-seepy/ Blot of black," writes Siddals; elsewhere, she makes the case for red ("Tip of fang,/ Flash of cape,/ Horns and tail,/ A gash, a gape"). Pickering balances out the menace in some of the rhymes with cartoon characterizations that are far from frightening on the "red" spread, a pint-size devil covered in bandages glowers at the vampire on the opposing page who, just maybe, has been testing out his fangs on him. Ages 2 5.
