Halloweenies [Hardcover]

David Wisniewski (Author, Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 17, 2002 | Age Level: 7 and up

Get ready to shriek...with laughter!

Within these covers lurk five horror spoofs just waiting to tickle your funny bone. Can it survive the shaggy shenanigans of "Frankenstein's Hamster"? Can it endure the galactic giggles of "Attack of the Space Toupees"? Yes, you say...

Well, grab your popcorn! The lights are going down! The curtains are going up! It's time for the first showing of...

Halloweenies!

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

In five stories modeled on creature-feature movies, Wisniewski, working more in the vein of his The Secret Knowledge of Grown-Ups than his Caldecott-winning Golem, warms up old gags. Pen-and-inks of three movie-going boys imply the intended audience, and so do lowbrow jokes about a castle's "big buttress" and a sherpa named "Duk Pin Bo Ling." A pushy cosmetologist turns a werewolf into a "werewuss," and, in "Attack of the Space Toupees," the wives of exclusively male government officials thwart a UFO plot (the vanquished aliens respond with sinister "space girdles"). Ages 7-up.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From School Library Journal

Grade 2-4-Those students who devour Dav Pilkey's "Captain Underpants" series (Scholastic) will love this book. Wisniewski has taken five popular horror films and written comical revisions illustrated with numerous black-and-white cartoons. The "Feature Presentations" are: "Curse of the Werewuss," "Frankenstein's Hamster," "Attack of the Space Toupees," "I Forgot What You Did Last Summer," and "The Abominable Showman." There are numerous puns ("the engine started smoking even though it knew it was bad for it"), and the black-and-white pictures guarantee lots of giggles. However, some may question the sensitivity of including such comments as, "I've got more chins than a Chinese phone book." Even those who are not familiar with the movies will find these rewrites funny.
Jean Lowery, Bishop Woods Elementary School, New Haven, CT
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 7 and up
  
• Hardcover: 80 pages
• Publisher: HarperCollins (September 17, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0060005130
• ISBN-13: 978-0060005139
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.4 x 3.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,475,002 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)