It's Halloween

by Jack Prelutsky

Book Overview

Thirteen poems to spice up the holiday that ghouls and ghosts love most. Prelutsky's Nightmares tamed for beginning readers. They're catchy at the most rudimentary level.--Kirkus Reviews.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 068814733X
• ISBN13: 9780688147334
• Release Date: September 1996
• Publisher: Greenwillow Books
• Length: 56 Pages
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.3" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

It's Halloween! (Original '80's edition)

This book was the reason I fell in love with this holiday. The illustrations are so detailed and magical. I'm in my 50's and still get excited reading it. HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Terrible Condition

This book is in terrible condition...I would have paid about $1 for it if I had seen it in person. Tape all over the cover, tons of ripped pages and water damage throughout the entire book. Very disappointed

BUY THIS!

It is the best Halloween book ever. It has just the right amount of creepiness to get kids really excited about Halloween. A fun book with simple rhyme schemes and memorable illustrations, it will keep kids interested. I'm 27 and I still love it.

It's Halloween IS Halloween

There must have been a lot of kids in the early 80s who got this book through a Scholastic Book Club and loved it. I am 26 now and this book still haunts me even though I have not seen my childhood copy in over 5 years. Though every Halloween I think of this book and the excitement I felt reading it as a kid. I especially love the goblin sitting in the tree outside the one boy's window towards the end. The look on his face is so reflective, it's creepy! I recommend this to ANYONE who has kids, who knows kids, or who is a kid.

Excellent book that sticks with you!

I first read this book MANY years ago. I got it from one of those wonderful Scholastic book order forms that were given out in class. I STILL love all the poems in it and have found that they stuck in my mind for all these years. I am delighted to find that it is still in print. This is an excellent addition to the library of anyone who has children or who enjoys Halloween in general!

Best Halloween Book for Young Readers Ever!

This wonderful book tells the story of an event-filled night for three young people through 13 separate poems about different Halloween night events. Jack Prelutsky's wonderful poems are expertly illustrated by Marylin Hafner- such an excellent teaming, I wish they'd collaborated on more books. I am 25 years old - grew up with this book, and every year around Halloween I find Parts of Prelutsky's poems dancing around in my head, along with favorite scenes of illustration. If this book were not back in print, I'd scour the globe looking for a copy - every child, and every Halloween-loving adult should own one!

My favorite childhood book!

Wonderful illustrations accompany 13 short poems about Halloween. Great for beginning readers. I am 26 years old and still pull it out to read every Halloween :)