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Blake Rinckey

If you feel uncomfortable overtly instructing your preschooler on how to be prejudice, yet you still want to instill in them a good dose of institutional racism, THIS BOOK IS FOR YOU!

Firstly...you don't have to even mention that the main character is a minority. According to some research, your child will AUTOMATICALLY pick up the difference in ethnicity and begin to categorize him as different [...]. Young children love to learn and categorize and try to figure the world out. What are we like? What are they like? This book will help!

Next comes the magic of the book. The story has a minority doing many things that you tell your child are bad or wrong. Some examples include; A passed out father figure, hurting strangers, stealing all a stranger's Halloween candy, robbing other items from their homes, and scaring and not respecting a police officer. Congratulations! Because of institutional racism, you have been able to guess the ethnicity of the main character....and after reading the book, your child will be able to also!

Bingo... no direct instruction on your part necessary. What could be easier? Your preschooler will easily be guided and helped to come to their OWN conclusions about how people of a specific different ethnicity act.

If this sounds like your kind of book, write the author. Perhaps he can be convinced to write about least 3 other minority heroes so your child's education can be complete.

The description in the book order made this sound like it would be a fun book but the first time I read it, I was horrified by the bad values that the book teaches. After the kid scares everyone into passing out, he takes their bags of candy, but he doesn't stop there. He actually goes into someone's house and takes all the candy on the table, but he doesn't stop there either. He goes to their refrigerator and takes everything from it too. Not only does the book condone stealing, but it wasn't even funny either. I expected it to be amusing, but really it was just plain stupid. If you were considering buying this book, don't.

This is one of those books for kids that won't help them grow up to discover the cure for cancer, and won't make them want to run off an help the starving masses in Africa. Having said that my four year old son enjoys yelling boo! while reading it. My daughter, age two, also started yelling boo! as well.

Munsch has written some brilliant books and some not so brilliant but never a bad or immoral book. The goal of his books are to get kids into reading and even with this one -- not his best ("I got to go peeee!") -- he succeeds.

If you see dangers and evil lurking in many places perhaps you should avoid this book but if you enjoy sitting with your kids and reading together give it a try. Especially in the days before halloween.

Robert Munch is a wonderful author. I bought this book to add to my collection and my students always get a kick out of the humor.

This is one of my 4 year old daughters picks for reading time right now and I cringe every time she hands it to me. Okay fine that the kid paints his face so scary that anyone who sees it doesn't just scream, they pass out. We're obviously breaking from reality here, and that's just great. I can accept a few things as literary embellishment such as at Halloween each adult has massive amounts of candy for the trick-or-treaters, and a pillowcase can swell to hold a dumptruck sized load of candy. I realize the fun of the book is in the exaggeration. But it starts to get into things I don't want to have to explain. Most innocently, that the kid eats candy for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and midnight snacks for a year. But less innocently that saying the magic word, "Trick or treat," gives anyone and everyone who can incapacitate you in some way like scaring you silly can then march into your house and stroll off with whatever they like, from the halloween candy on your table to the contents of your fridge. And then, when the policeman hears what the kid has been doing, flat out telling him "I go in and take all the candy" the policeman's response isn't any sort of a reprimand, it's "bet you can't scare me."

All of this is perfectly acceptable. Certainly didn't bother the cop. It does bother me and every time we read this book we have to take a moment and discuss how it is bad to go into other people's houses and take their stuff under any circumstances.

However, ironically, the book does inform us that teenagers are too old to go out trick or treating. Kids practicing larceny? That's OK! But when those teenagers go out trick-or-treating? Well, that's frowned on. Oh by the way when a little kid steals the candy from an overage trick-or-treating (larcenous) teenager, that's okay too.

I bought this book because it was featured in the take home flyer from school. The story has a little boy dressing up so scarily that people pass out. Then he steals all their candy and in one case raids the refridgerator. He has so much candy that he can eat all he wants everday until next halloween. I think it teaches greed and glutony. Not really themes I want to reinforce in my preschooler.

I donate this book to my mom's day care where they already have lots of Robert Munsch even an authographed one(Get Out Of Bed). The kids really enjoyed all the candy the little boy got from scary people, especially the the police officer and the teenager. They all want enough candy to last theme a year.

Robert Munsch is my favorite author. So, of course I love this book!