Here in one extra-large, idea-packed, fun-filled book is everything anybody will ever want to know about autumn's favorite holiday. Mixing a delightful text with highly atmospheric color illustrations, The Big Book of Halloween Fun presents ideas for games to play at Halloween parties, recounts tidbits of Halloween history and spooky Halloween jokes, gives directions for making original costumes, offers recipes for party foods and treats, features songs and poems with Halloween themes, tells scary ghost stories, and suggests party ideas. A fascinating collection of Halloween-related folklore includes legends, love spells, and traditional ways to find out whether one's love will be true and lasting or chaotic and strife-torn. Here too are directions for making great Halloween party invitation cards with pop-up ghosts, as well as pumpkin-and-chocolate truffles to serve at that party. Kids, grownups, and everybody who enjoys celebrating Halloween will find great ideas for hours of supernatural fun and eerie entertainment. Full-color illustrations throughout.
Having studied Fine Art at the Slade School, Susie Johns worked as a magazine and partworks editor for 11 years, specialising in cookery, crafts, childcare and gardening, before going freelance in 1996.
Since then, she has written and illustrated books on a variety of creative subjects.
She has also worked for Marvel Comics, making most of the models for Art Attack magazine and has written regular features for consumer magazines such as Stitches, Let's Knit, Crafts Beautiful, Quick & Crafty, Beads & Beyond, Needlecraft, Junior, Family Circle, Practical Parenting, Practical Gardening and Embroidery (for the Embroiderers' Guild and Royal School of Needlework).
Favourite crafts include embroidery, knitting, crochet, collage and watercolour painting. And she particularly enjoys activities that involve recycling and reinventing.
Susie is a qualified teacher. She runs a weekly drawing and painting class at an Adult Education college near her home in Greenwich, South East London, and has plenty of experience running workshops in watercolours, knitting and crochet, and 3D Design. She was an 'Art of the Stitch' exhibitor in 2001.
Susie's latest books, due to be published this autumn are Knitted Flowers: Twenty to Make (Search Press) and The Felted Bag Book (New Holland). To see examples of Susie's work and to find out more about her, visit: www.susieatthecircus.typepad.com
