Her words fairly trip off the tongue: 'In the Halloween house, / on a bed made of pine, / a mama vampire woke / with her little ones, nine. The Halloween House is an absolute delight! Silverman, who also penned the popular Halloween story to be found in Big Pumpkin, delivers a rollicking, cleverly monstrous take on the old rhyme. Is it any wonder that the convicts flee the house, returning to their cell.? As the horrified convicts watch in terror, ten werewolves howl, nine vampires rise, eight worms squirm, seven bats swoop, six ghosts book, five monsters chase, four skeletons dance, three spiders swing, two cats pounce, and one little witch flies. As two escaped convicts, who appear only in illustrator Jon Agee's artwork, make their way through the house, various monster parents instruct their children on the proper course of action. With a rhyme scheme that remotely echoes Madeline, a counting pattern that mirrors 'Ten Little Indians,' and a song-like structure reminiscent of The Twelve Days of Christmas, The Halloween House may become a classic in its own right.Using the traditional English counting rhyme, Over in the Meadow, as an inspiration, author Erica Silverman spins a spooky tale about the Halloween House on Halloween night in this entertaining picture-book.

Jon Agee, illustrator of Dmitri the Astronaut, delights young readers again with his artfully cartoonish paintings this time his paintings show the dilapidated, spooky, but oddly festive Halloween house and its lively inhabitants.

As the book ends, all the creatures vanish-except, of course, for the two escaped convicts, who end up finding a much safer hiding place. This eerily mesmerizing rhyme scheme repeats throughout the book as nine vampires rise, eight worms squirm, seven bats swoop, six ghosts boo, five monsters chase, four skeletons dance, three spiders swing, two cats pounce, and one witch flies. a papa werewolf crouched/with his little ones, ten./'Howl,' said the papa./'We howl,' said the ten./So they howled through the night/in the dark, dingy den.' 'In the Halloween house,/in a dark, dingy den.

This delightful, rhyming counting book gleefully guides children from one nocturnal creature family to another, starting with a litter of ten werewolves. If you were an escaped convict, where would you choose to hide from the law? Be warned, The Halloween House is not a good choice.

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