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(More customer reviews)ISBN 0060275677 - My run of Halloween books for kids continues and I consider myself a very happy reviewer. Halloween books are some of the most fun and creative holiday books for kids and finding great ones is wonderful. The cover image and the title of this book are so simple and straightforward that I worried about finding a really boring book, but it turns out that sometimes simple is just... simple!
A young student narrates the story, introducing her classmates one at a time, as she guesses who is in which costume. The costumes range from basic to elaborate and the narrator has a kind word to say about each of them. On the left-hand page, she says the person who is in the costume and on the facing page, there is an illustration of that child at the moment when he/she was inspired. Accompanied by a mysterious fairy godmother, the children have a Halloween parade before snack time back in their classroom. There, their fairy godmother magically makes cupcakes appear, then reveals herself to be none other than their teacher.
There's not exactly a story here to criticize, which would normally be a criticism on its own. Instead, the lack of an actual storyline works all right here, a bit like how not having classes in school works on Halloween. It's Halloween and we're just here to look at the costumes and have candy, right? Anne Rockwell's text is simple for beginning readers and the illustrations, by Lizzy Rockwell, are adorable, filled with fun details. This is a good book for those days when you're trying to get your own child to choose what they want to be for Halloween, allowing them to see what inspired the children in the story to make the choices they did.
- AnnaLovesBooks
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