By the Light of the Halloween Moon - Softcover

Stutson, Caroline

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0761462449 ISBN 13: 9780761462446

Publisher: Two Lions, 2012

Synopsis

In this fun, cumulative tale, a little girl’s toe taps a tune as her legs dangle from a footbridge that has all sorts of creatures hidden underneath. There are cats and witches, bats and ghosts. With a rhythmic, bouncy text and imaginative illustrations, this Halloween story is sure to tickle your bones—your funny bones, that is!

Revised edition: This edition of By the Light of the Halloween Moon includes editorial revisions.

About this title

About the Author:

Caroline Stutson was a children’s book author of ten published books, including Pirate Pup, illustrated by Robert Rayevsky; Night Train illustrated by Katherine Tillotson; and By the Light of the Halloween Moon, illustrated by Kevin Hawkes. She enjoyed giving puppet shows, reading, walking on the Highline Canal with her dog, and attending live theater. Learn more about her at www.carolinestutsonbooks.com.

About the Illustrator

Kevin Hawkes has written and/or illustrated more than fifty acclaimed picture and chapter books, including the New York Times bestseller Library Lion by Michelle Knudson; the Wicked Big Toddlah series; and By the Light of the Halloween Moon, written by Caroline Stutson. Learn more about him at www.kevinhawkes.com.

From Kirkus Reviews:

Stutson's first is a catchy, lilting cumulative tale with glorious comical/scary illustrations. Wriggling on a relaxed bare foot dangling from a rickety footbridge (at the top of the pages, so that only its owner's legs are visible) is ``A toe!/A lean and gleaming toe/That taps a tune in the dead of night/By the light...of the Halloween moon!'' The action here is all under the bridge: a perching cat spies the toe; as it leaps for it, a witch snatches at the cat. The cumulation continues with a bat; ``A ghastly drooling graveyard ghoul/Who swats at the bat''; and a piratical ``williwaw ghost,'' as Hawkes silhouettes the vibrant, bug-eyed figures dramatically against the night's pitch black. Last comes a pan up to ``A small bright slip of a smiling girl,'' owner of the menaced toe and of a fiddle, with which she ``smacks the sprite/Who bites the ghost...'' while she tells them all, ``OH, NO YOU DON'T!/THAT TOE IS MINE!'' Hawkes's splendidly imaginative ghoulies and ghosties will delight both young monster-fanciers and admirers of his glowing painterly style and handsome compositions--as will nifty touches like mussels in the pirate's luminous beard, a cartoony worm in the ghoul's top hat, and the sly contrast between the girl's purely innocent bare legs and the boisterous underworld that never quite touches them. A must. (Picture book. 4-10) -- Copyright ©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

About this edition

• Publisher: Two Lions
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0761462449
• ISBN 13: 9780761462446
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Hawkes Kevin