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It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown! and The Great Pumpkin Festival app reviews
The Peanuts gang is back in two new interconnected Loud Crow Interactive apps.A follow-up to last fall’s fabulous A Charlie Brown Christmas app, Loud Crow's latest story app It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown! (October 2012) is based on the 1966 animated holiday TV special of the same name. Linus...
New Halloween recommended reads
'Tis the season for ghoulies and ghosties and long-leggedy beasties, so we've updated our Halloween reading list with lots of books that go bump in the night. These titles were all published within the last few years and recommended by The Horn Book Magazine. There's something for everybody, whether you're...
October Notes is creepy and kooky
...mysterious and spooky for Halloween! This month we've got 5 questions for Libba Bray on her spine-tingling new supernatural novel The Diviners, plus- more quirky fantasy for YA- four new not-creepy picture books- silly (and a little scary) chapter books- human body—dead and alive—nonfiction booksRead our monthly newsletter Notes from...
Books that go bump in the night: recommended Halloween reading
The books recommended below were published within the last several years. Grade levels are only suggestions; the individual child is the real criterion. Picture BooksSuggested grade level listed with each entry.There’s No Such Thing as Ghosts! by Emmanuelle Eeckhout (Kane/Miller)A boy, armed with his trusty butterfly net, goes ghost-hunting at a...
Ghosts and zombies, weirdness and gore
The following books offer chills and thrills with some laughs thrown in for good measure. What more do middle-graders and middle-schoolers need come October 31st?Invisible Inkling: Dangerous Pumpkins by Emily Jenkins picks up the story of fourth-grade Brooklynite Hank Wolowitz and his bandipat friend Inkling (an invisible, endangered, pumpkin-loving creature)....
From the Editor - October 2012
If your library is anything like the ones I worked in years ago, there were two types of holiday books we could never keep on the shelves regardless of season. Christmas books went out all year round, and books about monsters, ghouls, the Great Pumpkin and anything with a “scary...
Diseased bodies, blood, and bones
Sounds like the makings for a horror movie or witch’s brew. However, the topics covered in four new nonfiction books are less gory than they are invitations to broaden readers’ understanding of the history of humankind.HP Newquist’s The Book of Blood: From Legends and Leeches to Vampires and Veins provides...
Spooks, and ninjas, and vampires—oh my!
Who needs candy? These four new treats will satisfy picture book fans hungry for Halloween fun.While delivering invitations to his Halloween party, ghost Oliver, star of Leo Landry’s Trick or Treat, doesn’t notice when one slips away and floats down to two boys. When “a little cow and a little...
Left-of-center supernatural fantasy
This time of year, vampires, zombies, and other things that go bump in the night — already omnipresent in YA fantasy — get an extra workout. These new novels are no mere creature features, though, presenting carefully crafted dark fantasy worlds and nuanced “monsters” more like us than we might...
Need braaains... and nimble fingers
In high Halloween spirits, Cindy, interns Melissa and Caitlyn, and I tried Duy Nguyen’s activity book ZombiGami: Paper Folding for the Living Dead (Sterling, October).After perusing the thirteen zombie-centric projects, we settled on the paper-folding tribute to Michael Jackson’s "Thriller"—who doesn't love an undead dance scene? And, believe it or...
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