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Black and Bittern Was Night
by Robert Heidbreder
Kids will enjoy the idea that trick-or-treaters face the Skul-a-mug-mugs and drive them away. It is even more enjoyable that the adults in the story were so afraid of the skeletons that they canceled Halloween and hid behind locked doors. The illustrations maintain the playful tone of the nonsense words. These are not scary skeletons, and they can be defeated so that trick-or-treating may begin. One of my favorite scenes is the children with their cat facing off against some Skul-a-mug-mugs with their little skeleton dog.
This would be a fun book to use in a poetry unit around Halloween time. You could look for examples of onomatopoeia, talk about how poets sometimes invent words, and have fun with the rhyming nonsense. A comparison with some of the words from poems like "Jabberwocky" could start a great discussion.
I read an e-book provided by the publisher through NetGalley.
This would be a fun book to use in a poetry unit around Halloween time. You could look for examples of onomatopoeia, talk about how poets sometimes invent words, and have fun with the rhyming nonsense. A comparison with some of the words from poems like "Jabberwocky" could start a great discussion.
I read an e-book provided by the publisher through NetGalley.