Monster Parade: A Halloween Book for Kids

by Shana Corey, Will Terry (Illustrator)

Overview

Halloween is here! It’s time for all the neighborhood children to put on their costumes, march in a Halloween parade, have fun at a party, and head out for some trick-or-treating. This exuberantly rhymed celebration of Halloween includes two sheets of stickers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780375856389
Publisher:	Random House Children's Books
Publication date:	07/28/2009
Series:	Step into Reading Book Series: A Step 2 Book
Pages:	24
Product dimensions:	5.80(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.20(d)
Lexile:	330L (what's this?)
Age Range:	4 - 6 Years

About the Author

Shana Corey is the author of many books for children. She lives in Brooklyn.

Will Terry has illustrated numerous books for children. He lives in Cedar Hills, Utah.

Editorial Reviews

Simple rhymes celebrate Halloween in solid, easy-to-read fashion: "Monsters munching, / monsters crunching, / monsters chomping, / monsters stomping!" Corey's monsters disport themselves happily till, one by one, the little monsters get sleepy and bid Halloween goodnight. Corey's text is merely serviceable, but Terry's illustrations more than compensate. His costumed kids transform from ordinary children to marvelously bulbous, outlandish creatures in psychedelic colors and with gorgeously bug-eyed faces. They walk down the darkening streets, plastic trick-or-treat pumpkins dangling from improbably protruding childish hands, not so much kids wearing costumes as the real deal-nary a witch nor a superhero among them-in a validation of the transformative power of the day. A happy change of pace for beginning readers. (Early reader. 5-7)

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