Halloween Night [Hardcover]

Arden Druce (Author)

Book Description

Age Level: 3 and up | Grade Level: P and up

Many secrets unfold on Halloween night

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

In this hair-raising tour of a mansion and cornfield, readers confront creatures of the night. Druce (Witch, Witch Come to My Party) generates suspense with rhyming questions that are answered with a trembling turn of the page. A diaphanous form lurks behind a broken window ("Who can walk through closed doors/ with a thud and a thump?/ `I can,' said the ghost"), bats swoop and a skeleton emerges from a crypt. Wenzel's (The Christmas Path) naturalistic watercolors and tilted fields of vision enhance the unsettling ambience. Ages 4-8.

Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

From School Library Journal

K-Gr 2-Riddles introduce the characters associated with Halloween, including a witch ("On Halloween Night/when it's dark and scary/who can swoop through the air/with a swish and a flurry?") and a jack-o'-lantern ("On a darkened porch/when the moon is low/who can light a smile/with a shine and a glow?"). Watercolor illustrations of haunted houses, graveyards, ghosts, and trick-or-treating children establish an appropriately spooky mood; however, the occasionally awk-ward rhymes can make reading aloud difficult.

Shara Alpern, The Free Library of Philadelphia

Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 3 and up
  
• Hardcover: 24 pages
• Publisher: Cooper Square Publishing Llc (July 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0873587979
• ISBN-13: 978-0873587976
• Product Dimensions: 10.3 x 8.8 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,059,349 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Must have for your children's holiday library., July 25, 2001

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Dari B. Wayne (Lawrenceville, GA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Halloween Night (Paperback)

Rising Moon Publishing is well known for its beautiful children's books, and they continue to raise the bar with this holiday offering for young children. A simple Halloween story that invites young people to respond is "costumed" with full page illustrations that are rich in color and activity. This is a great book to read to young people throughout October in anticipation of Halloween night. The David T. Wenzel illustrations will also appeal to adults who love Halloween and they will want to add this book to their own library.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sams amazing book review Halloween Night, November 12, 2001

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Halloween Night (Hardcover)

The book was a great story to read.The characters sounded so lifelike.I thought that the whole story was so cool (spoiler)

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Kindle version, September 11, 2011

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Nandan10 - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Halloween Night (Kindle Edition)

I was very disappointed with the kindle version of the book. The pictures were in beautiful colors when I viewed the book on the Amazon website. The kindle version is black and white.