MommaReads

T.Rex wants to go trick-or-treating with his friends Stegosaurus, Iguanodon and Diplodocus but he can’t decide what to wear that would make him look scary. His friends are already going as a ghost, a witch and a skeleton. His friends have a couple of suggestions but T. Rex decides those aren’t scary enough. Finally, they decide that he’s pretty scary just being himself. Super cute story with adorable illustrations especially if you have a dinosaur fan in your house.

Ant and Honey Bee have been pilgrims for Halloween for a couple of years in a row. They decide to do something differently this year and they put a lot of work and creativity into their new costumes. When they step outside to go trick-or-treating, however, Mother Nature all but ruins all of their hard work. The pair will not be undone though, they make lemons out of lemonade and use their fast thinking and creativity to salvage their costumes.

Wendell, Floyd and Mona are not happy how their Halloween costumes have turned out, but they are stuck with them. It’s a good thing they decided to stick with them too because they come in handy Halloween night. The bullies of the block show up dressed as witches and it turns out that those Halloween costumes they didn’t like so much have magical powers that help them outwit those witches.

A very cute book with the same rhythm and cadence of the more popular night before Christmas story, but this time the ghosts and goblins are getting ready for Halloween, as are the children and their parents.

Mummies unraveled
and put on new wraps.
Spiders found corners
and spun silky traps.

Meanwhile the children
were tucked snug in their beds,
while visions of candy corn
danced in their heads.

Natasha Wing has several “night before” stories and they are all adorable. This one is no exception.

We have read this book A LOT in our house over the years! It is a cute rhyming story that has your kids counting backwards from ten to one as the ten children in the story trick-or-treat through the neighborhood. One by one, a child leaves the story due to some Halloween mishap which leaves one trick-or-treater sleeping in her bed after a long night of gathering candy.

Peter lives on Pumpkin Hollow Farm with his Mimi and Papa. They grow several crops throughout the year, but Peter’s favorites are the pumpkins. One year, Peter ends up tending to a very special pumpkin. He nurtures it and watches it grow and grow. When the farm opens up to the public, that special pumpkin’s vine is so far away from the others that no one picks it. That is until a very special someone comes looking for a very special pumpkin and Peter knows exactly what to do with his pumpkin. Very cute story of giving and friendship and I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the illustrations.

I am going to take a break from Halloween books for today because I came across this really cool website that helps kids practice their spelling words. You (or they) type in their spelling list and then the website makes games for them to play on-line using their spelling words. It also makes worksheets that you can print out using the list you typed in. I thought it was pretty cool. It seems there are some options that you have to pay for, but I never ran into a spot where it asked me to pay for anything while I was playing around with it. I just thought this might be a fun and different way to practice spelling words at home or for teachers to practice with their students at school. Go to www.spellingcity.com to check it out.

If your kids like a mystery, then they will enjoy helping Albert and the gang solve riddles that lead them to the missing pumpkins.

Super duper cute book with advice on picking a name for your monster, how much to feed your monster, games to play with your monster and traveling with your monster just to name a few. This is an adorable book and the illustrations are a hoot, too.

Once a month, when the moon is full, a little boy takes over his dad’s barber shop and trims up the locks of monsters, vampires, Medusa, mummies, Frankenstein’s bride, zombies and even a skeleton. This is SUCH a cute book!