The ghosts go scaring

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Title:

The ghosts go scaring

Author:

Bozik, Chrissy, author.

Storms, Patricia, illustrator.

Summary:

Illustrations and rhyming text help the reader count the ghosts floating through the neighborhood on Halloween.

Audience:

Ages 3-6.

General Note:

"First published by Scholastic Canada Ltd. as The ghosts go spooking, 2015"--Title page verso.

"Can be sung--or read--to the tune of the song The ants go marching"--Front dust jacket flap.

Edition:

First Sky Pony Press edition.

Physical Description:

1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm

Genre:

Stories in rhyme.

Ghost stories.

Picture books.

Subject Term:

Halloween -- Juvenile fiction.

Counting -- Juvenile fiction.

Author(s):

Storms, Patricia,

Publisher:

Sky Pony Press,

Publication Date:

2016

2015

ISBN:

9781510712287

Publication Information:

New York : Sky Pony Press, [2016]

Call Number:

P BOZIK

Holds: Copies:

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Item Barcode	Collection	Call Number	Status	Item Holds
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Boo! Boo! Boo! It's Halloween night and the ghosts are out of the shadows and ready to scare! One by one and then two by two, the ghosts float through the neighborhood having some fun. Seven by seven and eight by eight they cause a fright for everyone they meet! Count from one ghost to ten ghosts on this silly and spooky Halloween night!

To the tune of "The Ants Go Marching," this is a fun read-aloud and sing-along book for kids and grownups alike. The perfect book to add to your Halloween collection, children will love identifying all the costumes in the ghost march. Be on the lookout for ghostly silhouettes and other spooky objects hidden in the amusing illustrations! The Ghosts Go Scaring doubles as a counting book and young readers will have fun pointing out the new ghosts as they appear on each page, counting along with them as they go scaring through the neighborhood!

Sky Pony Press, with our Good Books, Racehorse and Arcade imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of books for young readers-picture books for small children, chapter books, books for middle grade readers, and novels for young adults. Our list includes bestsellers for children who love to play Minecraft; stories told with LEGO bricks; books that teach lessons about tolerance, patience, and the environment, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

Author Notes

Chrissy Bozik is a teacher and co-author of 101 Math Jokes . She lives in Dorchester, Ontario.

Patricia Storms is a picture book author and award-winning cartoonist and illustrator. Her previous books include Never Let You Go and The Pirate and the Penguin . She lives in Toronto, Canada.

Reviews (1)

School Library Journal Review

PreS-Gr 2-A group of ghosts make their way to a Halloween party, meeting a bevy of friends along the way. Bozik's lively text is a reworking of "The Ants Go Marching" ("The ghosts go scaring one by one,/the little one stops to have some fun./And they all go scaring/out in the night,/to cause a big fright."). On each spread, the number of ghosts increases by one; the final spread sees 10 ghosts bopping and bouncing at a mansion, joined by a vampire, a werewolf, Frankenstein, and a mummy. Though the color scheme is appropriate for a Halloween romp-a giant yellow moon, deep blues and purples for the sky-there's a gentle tone that runs through this fairly tame outing, from the smiling vampire family who greet the trick-or-treating ghosts to a grinning group of bats to the fiddle-playing skeleton crew. Sporting costumes (bunny ears, cowboy hat) and making asides through speech bubbles, the ghosts are high on the cute factor, and the cartoonish illustrations ooze fun. VERDICT A solid option for those seeking a Halloween read-aloud or sing-along or an introduction to numbers and counting.-Mahnaz Dar, School Library Journal © Copyright 2016. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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