Dan Yaccarino's vibrant and bold illustrations bring these pumpkins to life with personality and style. Toddlers are sure to laugh out loud as these pumpkins roll out of sight!

    The Cat slices up the pumpkin, the Squirrel stirs in the water, and the Duck tips in just enough salt. But one day the Duck wants to stir instead, and then there is a horrible squabble, and he leaves the cabin in a huff. It isn't long before the Cat and the Squirrel start to worry about him and begin a search for their friend. Rendered in pictures richly evoking autumn, Helen Cooper's delightful story will resonate for an child who has known the difficulties that come with friendship. Included at the end is a recipe for delicious pumpkin soup.

    But Joshua Summerhayes liked to run...with Yellow Dog trailing behind him." So it's no surprise when Joshua decides to enter a race from Melbourne to Sydney. People laugh when old Joshua shows up in his overalls and gumboots, calmly nibbling a slice of pumpkin for energy. But then he pulls into the lead, and folks are forced to sit up and take noticeE?.Inspired by a true event (and just in time for fall's pumpkin harvest!) a talented team introduces a humble and generous hero who knows that winning isn't always the reason to run a race.Marsha Diane Arnold made "an impressive debut" (School Library Journal) with the multi-award-winning Heart of a Tiger (Dial). Brad Sneed most recently illustrated Smoky Mountain Rose (Dial), an American Bookseller Pick of the Lists that Publishers Weekly said will "make readers 'happy as a pig in a peanut patch.' "Marsha Diane Arnold lives in Sebastopol, California.Brad Sneed lives in Prairie Village, Kansas.

    Mr. Brown has a bookstore full of spooky ghost books. But even though he has a cat, he also has mice in his store. No customers will come in, and Mr. Brown gives his cat an order: Get rid of the miceor else. Mr. Brown's ingenious and kindhearted cat comes up with a spectacular plan that just might work--with a little help from some ghost-mice. The text in this funny mystery is lively, and the big, full-color pictures by popular illustrator Nadine Bernard Westcott are sweetly amusing and sly. For Halloween or any time, this is a great beginning reader for kids who love ghost stories. Barbara Maitland is the author of The Bear Who Didn't Like Honey. Nadine Bernard Westcott is the creator of over thirty picture books; she also designs a popular line of greeting cards.

    . . Wondering what type of vacation to take? Choose Emma's!" said Publishers Weekly of the original hardcover picture book. And now it's available as a board book, perfect for kids who know what it is like to always have to do what adults want to do. Everybody loves vacations, but not everybody loves the same things. When Emma's mom and dad make all the plans--a car drive, a bus ride, trips on boats and trains--sight-seeing is exhausting! So adorable Emma shows them how to have a really good time, with a lot less fuss.

    Myriad underground passages harbor mementos of horrific history, as the young dragons and au pair discover in their explorations.Through this spellbinding narrative, with its brigands, coiffeur, Count Ghastly, moguls, alchemical queen, courtesan, contrary cartographer, and cross-dressing cowboys, Gordon illuminates the mysteries of usage, speeding the reader to expertise with such confusions as decry/descry, fatal/fateful, displace/misplace, precipitate/precipitous, and masterful/masterly. A companion lexicon, which includes anomie, farouche, quidnunc, internecine, obloquy, fatidic, and noetic, continues the tales and intrepid trek, all the while treating war, power, and celebrity cults with satirical wit and insight.With Out of the Loud Hound of Darkness Gordon lures you into the intricacies and pleasures of language through a brooding, hilarious fabric of fiction.

    Each aspect of the multiday festival is carefully explored, from the journey to the cemeteries to spruce up neglected gravesites to the lively marketplace selling breads and candies in the shapes of skulls and skeletons and finally, the peaceful vigil as friends and families crowd the cemeteries to await the arrival of their loved ones through the long night.San Francisco-based photographer John Greenleigh traveled to small towns in Mexico in four different years to document this extraordinary festival. Accompanied by evocative text by cultural scholar Rosalind Rosoff Beimler, the pictures speak eloquently to a ritual that is at once mocking and respectful of death -- and ultimately affirming of human life.

    Get ready to celebrate Halloween with this spooktacular beginning reader chapter book:Henry Hooper is a little nervous about going to his friend Artie Doomsday's house on top of Hallows Hill.  Everybody calls the hill HAUNTED Hill, and when Henry meets Artie's sister Wanda and Granny Doomsday, he starts to wonder if the Doomsday household is haunted, too.  Especially when Granny starts cooking up a big pot of bat bones and spider stew!  Is this some kind of crazy Halloween prank, or is the Doomsday family for real?Michelle Poploff is the author of two chapter books, Splash-a-Roo and Snowflakes and Tea Party for Two.  Bill Basso has illustrated many children's books, including the Dragon Slayers' Academy series and Wolfman Sam.

    Here is a madcap masquerade that will leave school-age children in stitches.

    Contents: King Tut the boy king --The shrimp squad --The blue box mystery --Hale-Bopp: the 'Wow' comet --Face painting --Puffin stuff --Beauty-ful music --A case of the giggles --Amazing but true --Hercules and the hero tree --Tara Lipinski: princess of the ice --They're just eggs-traordinary --A pencil garden --Temper, temper, Donald! --Mysterious maidens of the sea --In the middle of the action! --The joke's on you!

    A day of family reunions, meals, and fun, Halloween brings people of all ages together with rhyming, storytelling, family fireworks, and community bonfires. Perhaps most important, it has become a day that transcends the social conflict found in this often troubled nation. Through the extensive use of interviews, The Hallowed Eve offers a fascinating look at the various customs, both past and present, that mark the celebration of the holiday. Looking through the lenses of gender, ethnicity, and religious affiliation, Jack Santino examines how the traditions exist in a nonthreatening, celebratory way to provide a model of how life could be in Northern Ireland. Halloween, concludes Santino, is a marriage of death and life, a joining of cultural opposites: indoor and outdoor, domesticity and wildness, female and male, young and old.

    Thus begins a fantastic Technicolor/tm/ escapade where Dan must use his wits (and his Magic Pencil) to make his nightmares disappear. Straight from the minds of Daniel (7 years old) and David (36 years old) Kamish comes a wild visual journey that kids will never get tired of reading. All 40 pages of line art were drawn by Dan, and then David added color, tone, and texture to the collaged spreads. The far-out art will no doubt appeal to kids and adults alike.

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    Children will shriek with delighted terror as the demons dance and the cauldrons boil. Fearsome action pop-ups and eerie verse offer ghoulish fun to young monsters. Here's a treat to chill and thrill little terrors all year long.

    She does see werewolves, vampires, ghosts, and gremlins -- but where can her little monster be?

    "As the moon and the stars light up the way, scarecrows jump down and begin to play." So begins the night time adventures of the Pumpkin Patch scarecrow family!