Customer Reviews

10 Trick-or-Treaters

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_10 Trick-or-Treaters : a Halloween Counting Book_ is a cute addition for your Halloween collection. Your little ones at home, school, or library will enjoy Janet Schulman's simple, rhythmic counting rhymes. It's easy for the kids to chime in with, "and then there were _____," as the trick-or-treaters run off, one by one.

Linda Davick's vividly colored illustrations are totally out-of-proportion which is great. There's no way your little ones will think her scenes are real, much less scary.

She's created a ghost with pink socks and lavender slippers, a green-faced fuzzy monster with red sneakers and white socks, and a fat mummy with white polka-dotted purple underwear peeking out of his sloppy bandages.

Linda's silly touches include a pink concrete mixer truck spewing "Party Mix" goodies instead of cement slurry, an owl toting 5 helium-filled balloons, a black cat making a 911 call, and best of all, big grins on the faces of the "scare-ers" -- the spider, frog, bat, skeleton, witch, and vampire.

_10 Trick-or-Treaters_ is a terrific "Isn't that silly!!" book to share with your little ones. You'll all be giggling in no time, and that should take the "scariness" out of Halloween if you have little ones enjoying this silly holiday for the first time.

_10 Trick-or-Treaters_ is definitely worth 5 stars from gobbysreviews, and it's inexpensive, too.

ENJOY!

gobby
Book Reviewer at Marathon Library

I checked this out of the library last year for my daughter who was then 9 months old and I thought it was a really cute book. So this year I bought it for her. She is now 21 months old and this is the best $5 I've ever spent for her. She absolutely loves this book, she will literally not leave home without it. She has learned to count from it and can name all the costumes. It has a wonderful rhyme which luckily does not drive me crazy when I have to read it dozens of times a day and the bright colors and cute pictures are great too. I highly recommend this book. I'm just sorry I didn't buy the board book format as our copy is now showing considerable wear and tear from being loved so much.

I just purchased this sturdy board book for my three-year-old great-niece and am highly impressed with the quality of illustration and binding.

I'm confident both her interest in the book and the book itself will last for many years to come.

It's so much fun to spot the rich details in this beautifully illustrated book. The reproduction is high quality, and the illustration techniques provide almost a 3-d depth.

ALSO: this series includes a winter-holiday "Trim the Tree'ers" book as well as a springtime book.

It's a shame Janet Schulman's 10 Trick-or-Treaters arrived too late for more timely October Halloween mention: all we can say is, it's sure to maintain interest over the next year and beyond, offering a blend of zany, bright drawings by Linda Davick paired with a Halloween-theme counting book based on the adventures of ten little trick-or-treaters. Truman Capote's classic A CHRISTMAS MEMORY receives Beth Peck's warm holiday drawings, a cd narrated by Celeste Holm and returns the 50th anniversary of a classic holiday story to print. A Christmas ritual of baking fruitcakes symbolizes the story of Buddy and his eccentric, elderly cousin. It first appeared in 1956 as a memoir of Capote's childhood but makes a simply love story for new generations.

I bought this book for my 19 month old. She loves the colorful pictures and the rhyming verse. She asks me to read it to her all the time.

Absolutely LOVE this book. My daughter enjoyed this book so much she learned how to count at 18 Months from reading this book to her every night. Its one of her all time favorite and now its past down to her sister who enjoys it just as much. She also enjoys counting just the same. Highly recommend this book for toddlers.

We got this for our daughter when we found it at our local toy store last Halloween. She immediately loved it and we read it over and over. We finally put it away and it just came out again. I think we will pass it down to our niece for next year. The illustrations are so vivid and the rhyming verse so well done. We were so excited that there were others in the series!

hae been reading this to my grandson since he was 6-7 mths. old ---this is the second time I ordered this book, when he was younger he keep chewing on it and it finally ripped, he would bring me the ripped pieces to read and I would have to piece it back together.....we are now reading the new copy of the book and he still loves it, anyone who comes to the house will eventually be asked to read his book ---he is 18 mths. now and still LOVES THIS BOOK!!!!

My son received this book for his first birthday, and right up until he turned two it was his absolute favorite book ('Where's Spot' was a close second.)

It has an easy to read rhyming story, which is also easy to remember. If your child likes reading books over and over like mine does it can be useful when they can turn the pages and you can recite the story without having to look at the words. Don't get me wrong, I love to read my son stories while he's sitting on my lap, but when he's demanding the story for the 10th or 11th time in a row, it's nice to also be able to pick up a few toys while reading.

The book also made him really interested in numbers. It definitely helped him learn his numbers through 10, and peaked his curiosity about what came next - by the time he was 2-1/4 he was counting to forty-six, after which time he'd get bored. The book also has great illustrations.

The only note I would make to the athiests is that one of the pages mentions 'heaven': "Eight trick or treaters under racing clouds in heaven..." - not many words rhyme with 'seven'.