Children's Books: What's Hot Now: By the Light of the Halloween Moon

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By the Light of the Halloween Moon Oct 10th 2011, 10:05 By the Light of the Halloween Moon, A Cumulative Tale The story begins with a dark night, a full moon, a wiggling toe, and a black cat. The illustration shows someone (we can only see the lower half of the body) sitting in the dark on a dock with his (her?) bare feet dangling and one of the toes tapping “a tune in the dead of the night.” A black cat is attracted to this person’s toe, but before he can reach the toe, he’s stopped by a witch. Before she can reach the toe, the witch, in turn, is stopped by a bat â€" “A bungling bouncy breezy bat.” As the story continues, each creature is stopped from catching the toe by the next creature. We can’t tell if the person who is sitting on the dock is even aware of what is going on below the dock as the creatures, which also include a ghoul and a ghost, try to reach the person’s toe. However, after a “grumpy grungy hobgoblin sprite” bites the ghost before he can catch the toe, we are suddenly shown a full view of the person whose toe has been the center of attention â€" a little girl playing the violin. She promptly smacks the sprite and shouts, “OH, NO YOU DON’T! THAT TOE’S MINE!” What follows is surprising. Instead of scaring them all away, the little girl plays the fiddle while the creatures happily move around and dance “By the light, by the light / By the silvery light of the Halloween moon!” By the Light of the Halloween Moon: The Author and Illustrator Caroline Stutson’s By the Light of the Halloween Moon, with illustrations by Kevin Hawkes, was first published in 1993 by Lothrop, Lee & Shepard. Caroline Stutson is a former elementary school teacher. Other children’s picture books by Stutson include Pirate Pup, Night Train, and Cowpoke. Kevin Hawkes has won numerous awards for his children’s book illustrations. Hawkes has illustrated more than 35 children’s picture books, including Library Lion and Handel Who Knew What He Liked. By the Light of the Halloween Moon: My Recommendation The infectious story, with its alliteration, rhythmic repeating lines and scary-comic illustrations make By the Light of the Halloween Moon an appealing book for most 6- to 8-year-olds, as well as some younger children. The same three lines end each section of this cumulative tale and are repeated seven times throughout the book. Children will quickly learn to, and enjoy, repeating them along with the reader. With illustrations filling each double-page spread, along with brief text, this picture book is also a good classroom read-aloud. (Marshall Cavendish, 2009. ISBN: 9780761455530)

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