New Book Tuesdays: Week 11
Happy Halloween Everybody!
I know it's a few days early, but try telling that to the students. They are ready now! Halloween is one of my most favorite holidays (is that weird?) That being said, here are some great new books your students might enjoy - all added to the library today!
New Picture Book
Scaredy Squirrel Prepares for Halloween: A Safety Guide for Scaredies by Melanie Watts.
Check out Scaredy Squirrel's Halloween Safety Public Service Announcement below.
"From costume ideas to trick-or-treating strategies, Scaredy Squirrel helps readers plan for the spookiest night of the year!
Scaredy Squirrel Prepares for Halloween is the second in a series of nutty safety guides featuring everyone's favorite worrywart."
New Chapter Book
Mercy Watson: Princess in Disguise by Kate DiCamillo. This is the fourth Mercy Watson book by the Newbery Award winning author of Because of Winn-Dixie and The Tale of Despereaux. It's an early chapter book. See an inside spread from the book below.
"When the Watsons decide to zip their porcine wonder into a formfitting princess dress for Halloween-complete with tiara-they are certain that Mercy will be beautiful beyond compare. Mercy is equally certain she likes the sound of trick-or-treating and can picture piles of buttered toast already. As for the Lincoln Sisters next door, how could they know that their cat would lead them all on a Halloween "parade" of hysterical proportions? Kate DiCamillo's beguiling pig is back in a tale full of treats, tricky turns, hijinks, and high humor." -Images and blurb from MercyWatson.com
New Nonfiction Books
Spooky & Spookier: Four American Ghost Stories by Lori Haskins Houran.
"American history mixes with legend in four classic ghost tales for Step 4 early readers: a Cape Cod ghost horse that leads ships away from danger; a portrait that protests being moved within Virginia’s Shirley Plantation museum; a Colorado miner who continued to look for love even after his bones were dumped down an outhouse hole; and a one-handed California sea captain whose ghost is still said to prowl Stinson Beach. Step 4 Readers use challenging vocabulary and short paragraphs to tell exciting stories. For newly independent readers who read simple sentences with confidence." -Image and blurb from GoodReads.com
Halloween Is... by Gail Gibbons.
"Kirkus Reviews: This remake of Halloween (1984) brightens the original's gloomy tone with larger, redrawn illustrations featuring lots of happy-looking children and the occasional, not-particularly-scary, witch or ghost, paired to such reassuring lines as "today [skeletons] are used to scare people and have fun," and "weird and scary stories are enjoyed by all." Rewriting the text and adding some detail, Gibbons fills in the holiday's past, but focuses most closely on how it is celebrated today, adding warnings (not in the previous edition) that pumpkin-carving and trick-or-treating should only be done with parental assistance. Though this holiday standard has never gone out of print, there is enough new and recast material here to make it a treat, rather than a trick, even for libraries that just bought fresh copies of the old edition. (Picture book/nonfiction. ages 6-8)" -Image and review from bn.com
