Witches' Night Before Halloween - Hardcover

Bannatyne, Lesley

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1589804856 ISBN 13: 9781589804852

Publisher: Pelican Publishing, 2007

Synopsis

It�s the night before Halloween, and these witches still have many last-minute things to do! In this spooky parody of Clement C. Moore�s famous Christmas poem, the witches are up to their elbows in cobwebs and slime, trying to make sure their witchlings are well prepared for their first Halloween broomstick ride. Featuring witches like Mad-Maud and Snaggle-Tooth-Ruth and plenty of ghouls, zombies, monsters, skeletons, and moldy cellars that will satisfy all Halloween lovers, this good-natured book about these wickedly fun witches will have kids more amused than frightened.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

It's the night before Halloween, and these witches still have many last-minute things to do. They must organize ghosts and goblins, hang bats and stretch cobwebs, prepare potions and carve pumpkins, and make sure everything creepy, rusty, and slimy is in place before the haunting begins.

Told with wickedly clever rhymes reflecting the spooky fun made by Mad-Maud, Elise-With-One-Eye, and Snaggle-Tooth-Ruth, this humorous tale will have kids more amused than frightened. References to ghouls, zombies, monsters, cemeteries, skeletons, and dank, moldy cellars will satisfy all Halloween lovers.

By the time the witches complete their preparations, reassured that their witchlings are ready to "show all humans what witches can do," we know that this Halloween will be a magical one, full of plenty of "good fright"!

Author Lesley Pratt Bannatyne is a leading authority on Halloween who also wrote A Halloween Reader: Poems, Stories, and Plays from Halloweens Past, A Halloween How-To: Costumes, Parties, Decorations, and Destinations, and Halloween: An American Holiday, an American History, all available from Pelican. She resides in Somerville, Massachusetts, with her husband and daughter and their black cat, Charcoal.

Illustrator Adrian Tans has worked as a carpenter, ship's cook, stay-at-home dad, five-time Vermont state snow-sculpting champ, and photographer's assistant. He currently works as a painter and illustrator, exhibiting in a variety of galleries and venues. He lives with his wife, Lina, and their three children in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

About the Author:

One of the nation's foremost authorities on Halloween, Lesley Pratt Bannatyne has shared her vast knowledge of the holiday in television specials for Nickelodeon and the History Channel. For more than twenty years, she also has been active in the theater. She currently is co-director of Invisible Cities Group and co-artistic director of the Studebaker Theater. Ms. Bannatyne resides in Medford, Massachusetts, and has been named one of Boston's 100 Interesting Women by Boston Woman magazine.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pelican Publishing
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1589804856
• ISBN 13: 9781589804852
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Tans Adrian