PUBLISHER: Alladin, 8/1992
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MY GRADE: A
SYNOPSIS: The witch has grown the biggest pumpkin ever, and now she wants to make herself a pumpkin pie for Halloween. But the pumpkin is so big she can't get it off the vine. It’s so big the ghost can’t move it, either. Neither can the vampire, nor the mummy. It looks as if there’ll be no pumpkin pie for Halloween, until along comes the bat with an idea to save the day. How can the tiny bat succeed where bigger and strong spooky creatures have failed? You'll be surprised!
MY THOUGHTS: The witch is desperate to take the pumpkin off the vine so she can bake a pumpkin pie. She's visited one at a time by a ghost, vampire, mummy, and bat. They too want pie so they do their best to help her. Then a good time is had by all. Afterward the witch goes right back outside to plant a pumpkin seed for next year! I like that the witch is nice, not evil, though you'd expect her to be in a children's book. And like all, or most, children's books, this was very short and to the point.
PUBLISHER: Scholastic, 2000
MY GRADE: A
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SYNOPSIS: It's Halloween, and ten timid ghosts in a haunted house have a problem: a mean witch is preparing to move in and scare them away, one by one! Young trick-or-treaters learn to count backwards from ten to one as each ghost flies away to the woods after seeing a gleaming skeleton, a bat black as night, a frightening hoot owl, or an enormous rat, just a few of all the witch's tricks. But one clever ghost, before flying away, unravels the witch's plan! Together, the ghosts rise up against the witch in a big, scary BOO!
MY THOUGHTS: The witch tries to run the ghosts out by pranking each and every one of them. You can see her discreetly in each scene as she pranks them, which is funny. She succeeds but they get revenge. Love it because I love a revenge story.
My favorite image is below because you can see the witch's bag of tricks.
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