The Ghosts Go Scaring

by Chrissy Bozik, Patricia Storms (Illustrator)

Overview

Boo! Boo! Boo! It’s Halloween night and the ghosts are out of the shadows and ready to scare! One by one and then two by two, the ghosts float through the neighborhood having some fun. Seven by seven and eight by eight they cause a fright for everyone they meet! Count from one ghost to ten ghosts on this silly and spooky Halloween night! To the tune of “The Ants Go Marching,” this is a fun read-aloud and sing-along book for kids and grownups alike. The perfect book to add to your Halloween collection, children will love identifying all the costumes in the ghost march. Be on the lookout for ghostly silhouettes and other spooky objects hidden in the amusing illustrations! The Ghosts Go Scaring doubles as a counting book and young readers will have fun pointing out the new ghosts as they appear on each page, counting along with them as they go scaring through the neighborhood!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781510712287
Publisher:	Sky Pony
Publication date:	09/06/2016
Pages:	24
Product dimensions:	8.10(w) x 10.10(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	3 - 6 Years

About the Author

Chrissy Bozik is a teacher and coauthor of 101 Math Jokes. She lives in Dorchester, Ontario, Canada.

Patricia Storms has written and illustrated The Pirate and the Penguin, and illustrated The Ghosts Go Scaring, 13 Ghosts of Halloween, Be a Writing Superstar, and Snowy Science. She also writes and illustrates the monthly cartoon strip “Chirp and Friends” in Chirp magazine. Patricia lives in Toronto, Canada, with her husband and two fat cats, in a cozy old house full to the brim with books.

Editorial Reviews

09/01/2016
PreS-Gr 2—A group of ghosts make their way to a Halloween party, meeting a bevy of friends along the way. Bozik's lively text is a reworking of "The Ants Go Marching" ("The ghosts go scaring one by one,/the little one stops to have some fun./And they all go scaring/out in the night,/to cause a big fright."). On each spread, the number of ghosts increases by one; the final spread sees 10 ghosts bopping and bouncing at a mansion, joined by a vampire, a werewolf, Frankenstein, and a mummy. Though the color scheme is appropriate for a Halloween romp—a giant yellow moon, deep blues and purples for the sky—there's a gentle tone that runs through this fairly tame outing, from the smiling vampire family who greet the trick-or-treating ghosts to a grinning group of bats to the fiddle-playing skeleton crew. Sporting costumes (bunny ears, cowboy hat) and making asides through speech bubbles, the ghosts are high on the cute factor, and the cartoonish illustrations ooze fun. VERDICT A solid option for those seeking a Halloween read-aloud or sing-along or an introduction to numbers and counting.—Mahnaz Dar, School Library Journal

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