by Marisa Montes
On Halloween night, a monster ball is held in the Haunted Hall. Black cats, jack-o-lanterns, witches, skeletons, ghosts, ghouls, zombies, a vampire, a mummy, a werewolf, and corpses attend. They enjoy music and dancing until there is a knock on the door. It creaks open to reveal the scariest creatures of them all!
This rhyming Halloween picture book is full of iconic creepy creatures true to the season. Each double-page spread contains a stanza of the poem and an illustration that creatively extends the concept. The words are printed on a curve, which is visually appealing and helps the stanzas to flow together as if they were being sung. Spanish words are printed in italics to make them easily identifiable. The surrounding words work in tandem with the pictures to help the non-Spanish speaker understand them. A helpful glossary at the end of the book defines all of the Spanish words, in case the reader has a question about them. This book could be used to motivate children to write their own Halloween poems, to create lists of descriptive words to use when writing, to develop vocabulary, or to introduce the Day of the Dead (Mexican holiday: Día de los Muertos).
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About author, Marisa Montes: https://www.scholastic.com/teachers/authors/marisa-montes/
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