AMERICAN FORK — Listed below are more great stories for children that are frightful and delightful for this Halloween season:
HALLOWEEN COOKBOOK; Susan Purdy; Watts, 1977; cookbooks; 96 pages; 5-up.
Make a "Witches' Broom" cookie, a "Senior Squash" centerpiece or a hard-boiled mouse appetizer. All recipes designed with fall produce and holidays in mind.
HEIGH-HO FOR HALLOWEEN!; Elizabeth Hough Sechrist (illustrated by Guy Fry); Macrae Smith, 1948; stories, poetry, drama; 240 pages; 5-up.
Stories, poems, games, plays, holiday history and party ideas in the jam-packed Halloween activity book. Maybe no other holiday lends itself to such imaginative entertaining.
HALLOWEEN: Stories and Poems; Caroline Feller Bauer ed.; J. B. Lippincott, 1989; poetry, stories; 78 pages; elementary-up.
A collection of short stories and poems by well-known authors. All just a little scary, some traditional, some bouncing off the wall. A few pages of treats are included.
LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE; James Whitcomb Riley; Putnam, 1983; poetry; 30 pages; 5-up.
She's at our house to mop and sweep the crumbs away and give us a little scare or two, 'cause the goblins will get ya if ya don't watch out.
NEWBERY HALLOWEEN: A Dozen Scary Stories by Newbery Award Winning Authors; Martin H. Greenberg, ed.; Delacort, 1993; short stories; 189 pages; elementary-up.
Lloyd Alexander, Beverly Cleary, Madeleine L'Engle, Paul Fleischman and Virginia Hamilton are among award-winning authors have written short scary stories for this.
ORIGINAL DUCT TAPE HALLOWEEN BOOK: So Creative It's Scary!; Jim Berg and Tim Nyberg; Workman, 2003; costumes and crafts; 115 pages; young adult-up.
Over 101 clever, creative costume ideas. Ideas include giant duct tape spiders, giant duct tape bats and duct tape man-eating plants.
PENNY WHISTLE HALLOWEEN BOOK; Meredith Brokaw and Annie Gilbar; Simon & Schuster, 1991; cooking, crafts, parties; 80 pages; 5-up.
Filled with history, myths, pumpkin ideas, costume ideas, party ideas and much more. If you have children you may just have to own this book.
SPOOKY MAGIC TRICKS; David Knoles; Sterling Publishing, 1993; magic; 128 pages; elementary-up.
Traditional magic tricks, mind reading phenomena and sleight of hand turned spooky especially for this time of the year.
CREEPY COUNTDOWN; Charlotte, Huck (illustrated by Jos. A. Smith); Greenwillow, 1998; story, counting; 5-up.
Count up and then down with a succession of Halloween characters. Who in the middle squeaks "Boo to You!" and sends them all home frightened and no longer frightening?
EVERYONE GOES AS A PUMPKIN; Judith Vigna; Whitman, 1977; story; children.
After losing her beautiful new Halloween costume, Emily and her grandmother try to come up with the perfect replacement.
HALLO-WIENER; Dav Pilkey; Scholastic, 1995; story; 5-up (even moms and dads).
Oscar, the little wiener dog, has plans for the scariest Halloween costume ever. But will he be able to survive Halloween dressed as a giant hot dog complete with mustard?
HALLOWEEN PIE; Michael O. Tunnell (Utah author); Lothrop Lee & Shepard, 1999; story; 5-up.
Witch sets a pie on the window sill to cool. Vampires, banshees, zombies and skeletons are hungry and the pie disappears. Includes a recipe for Old Witch's Halloween pie.
IT HARDLY SEEMS LIKE HALLOWEEN; David S. Rose; Lothrop, Lee & Shephard, 1983; story; children.
A young boy expects "lots of scary things that go screech in the night." He sees none of these and goes home disappointed. If only he'd look behind him!
JEROME AND THE WITCHCRAFT KIDS; Eileen Christelow; Clarion, 1988; story; 5-up.
Jerome the Alligator has a baby-sitting job in a haunted house. His sister, Winifred, and her friend, Lulu, have other ideas in mind, and after all, it's Halloween!
POPCORN; Frank Asch; Parents Magazine, 1979; story; children.
Bear's parents are going out for Halloween night, so he decides to party. He invites all his friends. They arrive with popcorn, hoping for an evening of fun. Popping good fun.
PUMPKIN MOONSHINE; Tasha Tudor; Simon and Schuster, 1938; story; children.
A Halloween visit to the grandparents nets Sylvie Ann the biggest, fattest pumpkin she has ever seen. But before she can get it ready to carve, it gets away from her and rolls faster and faster down the hill. Tudor's gentle watercolor pictures tell the simple story of Sylvie and her pumpkin mishaps.
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