My First Halloween


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Tomie dePaola’s warm illustrations capture the fun moments of Halloween that become wonderful memories for the family. This is an irresistible addition to every child’s bag of treats.




Draw with Rob at Christmas


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Merry Christmas! The internet phenomenon #DrawWithRob is now a fantastically festive art activity book for you to draw with Rob at home... The second book based on the viral videos seen everywhere on YouTube, Facebook, TikTok, TV, and more, from the creative genius and bestselling author Rob Biddulph! Christmas is different this year, with more families at home and wondering what to do! Pick up your pencils and join thousands of children around the world and #DrawWithRob - celebrating Christmas has never been so much fun! The first DRAW WITH ROB activity book went to Number One in the charts and was named 'Book of the Year' at the 2020 Sainsbury's Children's Book Awards! Now every family can share this fantastically festive new art activity book for Christmas. Join Rob and learn to draw your favourite Christmas characters - from Polar Bears to Elves and from Father Christmas to a Snowman, this perfect present is packed with arts, crafts and festive fun. The bestselling and award-winning author/illustrator Rob Biddulph is the genius behind the phenomenal, viral sensation that is DRAW WITH ROB and the accompanying activity book, and now the sensational DRAW WITH ROB AT CHRISTMAS - bringing joy to families everywhere with his easy to follow instructions and warm-hearted humour. So whether you're in home education, home-schooling, learning to draw or just having fun, let Rob show you that anyone can learn to #DrawWithRob! *WITH PERFORATED PAGES SO YOU CAN EASILY TEAR OUT AND DISPLAY YOUR ART!* Rob's original hit videos are also available at www.robbiddulph.com, and on Facebook, YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram, with Rob appearing on TV to talk about them too. Perfect stay-at-home fun for boys, girls, and everyone aged three to one hundred and three, and a wonderful introduction to Rob Biddulph's bestselling picture book range - including the Waterstones Children's Book Prize-winning Blown Away, Odd Dog Out, and many more! Available in all good bookstores and online retailers, and perfect for children who are learning to read - or just love to!




Vegetables in Halloween Costumes


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The Vegetables dress up and celebrate Halloween in this latest outing from the hilarious Jared Chapman It’s Halloween! All the vegetables are excited to dress up for Carrot’s Halloween party. There are spooky costumes and scary costumes. Costumes for feeling fancy and costumes for feeling goofy. But which costume should Carrot wear? DING-DONG! Guests are arriving, but Carrot’s still wearing underwear! At the very last second, which costume will Carrot grab? This next board book in the Vegetables series delivers lots of laughs and celebrates the silliness and fun of dressing up all year round.




Tricks & Treats


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With this great guide to celebrating the spirit (and spirits) of Halloween, no special magic is needed to enjoy the latest trend in family fun. Tricks & Treats has tons of great ideas for Halloween costumes, decorations, parties and tempting fun foods. Over 50 projects.




A Halloween How-To


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This “entertaining” guide features “Halloween trends past and present...costumes, recipes, movies, parties, myths and expeditions” (Publishers Weekly). What is the difference between a goblin and a ghoul? What's the recipe for pumpkin soup? Where can you see the oldest Halloween parade in the United States? Have you ever wondered how to keep your carved pumpkin from decaying too quickly? If you're looking for information and instructions about every aspect of Halloween, you've come to the right place. A Halloween How-To is packed with ideas for October 31. There are fifty great costumes you can make yourself, recipes for everything from fake blood to pumpkin soup, and lists of great movies, CDs, and spooky books. Author Lesley Bannatyne has even assembled a number of games drawn from early twentieth-century Halloween celebrations and includes sample text for party invitations. “This how-to offers everything anyone would ever want to know about All Hallows Eve. . . . A useful reference for both the growing population of adults who revel in Halloween and folks who seek to make the trick-or-treat experience a little more harrowing for unsuspecting children in costume.” —Booklist




A Halloween Reader


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Wondering how to entertain guests at your Halloween party this year? Why not recite a poem, tell a story, or present a parlor drama? A Halloween Reader is sure to add excitement to the celebration. This sourcebook of Halloween lore spans British, Irish, and American literature from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries, from Robert Burns and Edgar Allan Poe to James Joyce and H. P. Lovecraft. Each of the poems, stories, and plays in this comprehensive anthology provides a link to Halloween celebrations of the past. "A Halloween Party," by Caroline Ticknor, is a humorous short story about a nineteenth-century New Yorker's first Halloween party. The macabre soliloquy from Sydney Dobell's Balder paints a dark, haunting picture of the hallowed eve. Robert Burns' "Halloween" gives a detailed description of the night of October 31 in eighteenth-century southwestern Scotland. The "Hallowoddities" section of the book includes witch-trial testimony, journal entries, and other spooky pieces related to Halloween. A Halloween Reader provides an overview of the holiday's roots and of how it has changed since it began in the British Isles more than one thousand years ago. In older literature, the dead are viewed as a supernatural evil, but one that can teach, predict, and warn, because they have seen the future that is hidden to us. In twentieth-century and current literature, however, the dead are portrayed as more humanly evil, returning as zombies to exact revenge or to otherwise terrorize the living. As Ms. Bannatyne says in her introduction, "The boundary between the vibrant world we live in and the underground world of worms is thin and brittle; it's only a matter of time. What makes the older Halloween literature so enthralling is that it lets us travel back and forth to the land of the dead without consequence."




Ultimate Halloween: Unique One-Of-A Kind DIY Halloween Crafts, Costumes, Recipes, Party Ideas, And Decorations


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Get ready to trick out the crafts, costumes, party ideas, decor and recipes with Ultimate Halloween! Everything in this ultimate guide to Halloween is designed to be easy, fun, unique and cost-effective. This is the only Halloween DIY craft book that you'll ever need, and of course, no Halloween DIY craft books would be complete if it didn't contain special ideas for sweet Fido and precious Kitty! The quick, simple and one-of-a-kind Halloween costumes will make you and your kids the life of the party. The costumes, crafts, recipes and decoration projects are so much fun to make, and the kids will be amazed at what they've created. This compilation of DIY Halloween projects will excite you and your children with some of the most original home decor projects and craft ideas that appeal to all age groups. Get ready for Halloween and afternoons filled with creativity, fun and wonder. Take advantage of the Fall season, with all its changing colors and refreshing weather by giving the little ones, as well as yourself, the chance to express creativity through these unique DIY Halloween projects! If you love Halloween, Halloween crafts, crafts and hobbies, home decor, holiday crafts, or any type of DIY craft books, don't miss this fun and exciting Halloween book! Buy Now! keywords: Halloween, Halloween crafts, Halloween books, Halloween recipes, crafts, crafts and hobbies, home decor, holiday decor, holiday decorating, Halloween decorations, DIY, DIY craft books, kids crafts, crafts for kids, Halloween recipes, sewing, sewing patterns, crochet, crocheting, Halloween costumes, Halloween costumes for kids, Halloween costumes for girls, Halloween costumes for boys, Halloween costumes for adults, Halloween costumes for pets, Halloween costumes for dogs, Halloween costumes for cats, knitting patterns, cookie recipes, Halloween cookie recipes, Halloween party ideas, Halloween party decorations, holiday cookie recipes, home decorating books, home decorating ideas




Halloween Nation


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"A sophisticated yet playful celebration of all things macabre, morbid and marvelous . . . Bannatyne makes a great case for celebrating Halloween everyday, all year long. . . . It's an energetic, thorough and breathless salute to everyone's favorite horror holiday." -Chris Alexander, editor in chief, Fangoria magazine "No one else has delved so deeply-and lovingly-into the mysteries of Halloween." -Dr. Jeanne Keyes Youngson, president and founder, the Vampire Empire It took two years of investigative work for Halloween authority Lesley Pratt Bannatyne to add a fifth book to her collection. Traveling across the country, she visited and talked with fanatics and fang makers, professional haunters, registered mediums, psychologists, and Halloween enthusiasts ranging from NPR's Garrison Keillor to Incubus guitarist Mike Einziger and The Simpsons' "Treehouse of Horror" writer Mike Reiss to find out what the increasingly popular holiday means to people and how they celebrate it. Through the course of her research, Bannatyne attended a seance for Houdini, a Samhain ritual gathering, a World Zombie Day event, and the Haunted Attraction National Tradeshow and Convention (HAuNTcon). Diving right into the heart of how fear turned into a form of entertainment, she asks hard-hitting questions: What kind of community does twenty-first-century Halloween create? Why are we so afraid of dead bodies? In the battle between Christmas and Halloween fought by Zombie Clauses, who deserves to win?




How To Make Your Own Spooky Halloween Crafts


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Discover how you can make your alloween crafts in such a way that it would freak out even the most strong-buddies!




A Halloween to Die For


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Something — or someone — is haunting Blithedale. And when a ghoulish murder takes place at the annual Halloween haunted house experience, one of Alice's best friends is framed. Now Alice must summon all her detective know-how to catch the ghostly killer. But can she do it before more blood is spilled? Join bookstore-owner Alice and her friends in book 3 of the Wonderland Books Cozy Mystery Series for a cozy mystery that celebrates books, friends, and the fun side of Halloween.