Debbie Lepannen is an award-winning author of children’s poetry.
She lives with her family in Duxbury, Massachusetts.
Tad Carpenter is a designer, author, teacher, and illustrator of
many books for young readers. The New York Times Book Review raved
of his Zoom! Zoom!, “Any child obsessed with trucks or backhoes or
trains or steam shovels should get a jolt of pleasure from the
vehicular energy on display here.” He lives in Kansas City,
Missouri. Visit him online at TadCarpenter.com.
"Fifteen spooky poems, each with its own spread, celebrate
Halloween as youngsters in costume share the night with a variety
of ghosts, goblins, and unknown fiends. Bright neon colors contrast
smartly with dark, brooding backgrounds.... This collection of
funny-scary verses is sure to delight even the faint of heart."
*School Library Journal, July 2013*
“Leppanen’s collection of 15 poems—some clever, some funny, some
creepy…should get kids in a Halloween frame of mind…. [Carpenter’s]
cartoon characters comically display the slight frights they
experience.”
*Kirkus Reviews, July 17, 2013*
"Leppanen can sling around Halloween iconography with the best of
them.... Carpenter’s angular digital art has a Molly Bang–style
boldness and uses bright primary colors to contrast the various
ghoulies against (mostly) dark and brooding backgrounds. The
ominous undertones of some of the poems are lightened by the art’s
humorous details. Got an event involving a huddle of nervously
giggling kids and a flashlight beneath the reader’s chin? Here’s
your book."
*Booklist, August 1, 2013*
"Fifteen short and often silly poems introduce Halloween monsters
and spooks that ham it up.... A gently ghoulish collection of
Halloween poems to provoke both giggles and chills."
*Publishers Weekly, July 22, 2013*
"These Halloween-y poems told from shifting perspectives—the scared
trick-or-treating youngsters’ and the creepy monsters’—are great
for both the expert cadence (they sound smashing aloud) and also
the balance of tone. Some are mildly chilling.... Others are
humorous.... The digital illustrations embody this mix, too:
children wide-eyed with fear are greeted by benign-looking
creatures just having a good time. A fun-filled, jaunty Halloween
treat."
*Horn Book Magazine, September-October 2013*
"This collection of fifteen original Halloween-themed poems offers
a playful variety of rhyming verses that mix longer descriptive
pieces in with limericks and lists; the resulting collection is
both entertaining and chock-full of crowd appeal. Humor
abounds...and the fear factor never reaches beyond playfully
spooky, making it a great selection for the younger set.....
Carpenter’s high-contrast digital compositions are...amusingly
imbued with a retro graphic feel; most spreads are day-glo bright,
with a multicultural cast of human/monsterly figures shining out
against a dark purple nighttime."
*The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, September
2013*
"Leppanen and Carpenter’s book is vividly colored and only
sort-of-scary in a way that will seem familiar from TV cartoons and
“Monsters Inc.”: grinning acid-green witches fly through purple
skies; skeletons play Ping-Pong; and a mummy-mommy, wrapped in
grave cloths, packs spider eggs for her mummy-son’s school lunch….
“Trick-or-Treat” is fun to read aloud but accessible and
appropriate for the youngest readers in the family; spooky enough
to whet their appetites for the eve, but not so frightening they’ll
hide in the closet when the doorbell starts ringing."
*NYTimes.com, October 9, 2013*
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