Black and Bittern Was Night

by Robert Heidbreder and John Martz

Book Overview

It's a band of animated skeletons versus daring children in this rhyming Halloween picture book tale, told in delightful nonsense language. Here the children are "tyke-tots" and the adults "tall-bigs," while the skeletons are called "SKUL-A-MUG-MUGS." As the story begins, the SKUL-A-MUG-MUGS descend on a small, quiet town on Halloween night. "They ring-ruckled round, enclupping the town, with quake-quiver-up and scree-scrackle down." The SKUL-A-MUG-MUGS...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1554533023
• ISBN13: 9781554533022
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Kids Can Press
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.4" x 10.7"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3