I love Nick Bland books and totally forgot all about this one! I read it today in honour of Halloween (although I guess it isn’t technically a Halloween book?) and the kids enjoyed it. Poor Marcel the monster is not very good at scaring kids until a child accidentally opens his lunch box to find a very unappetizing and, frankly, scary meal inside.
Halloween
Halloween Night by Marjorie Dennis Murray; illustrations by Brandon Dorman. Published by Greenwillow Books, ©2008.
I’ve been reading this book to classes the last few days and it is really cute. It starts out like “The Night Before Christmas,” but is definitely a much creepier take to the Christmas version. Our creepy creatures are preparing their delicious feast of bugs, slugs, rotten eggs, and other not-so-yummy items to share with the trick-or-treaters, but for some reason, the kids are much too scared to share in the feast! As the kids run home, the creepy creatures continue on with their party and have a great Halloween night! The illustrations are very detailed and creepy (not super creepy, but probably too creepy for my 4-year-old) and I feel kids could spend a good chunk of time looking at them. It’s also a rhyming book, which is always my favourite!

