Halloween Good Night

Count up to ten and back again with this sweet and clever Halloween bedtime story starring your favorite monsters!Gliding through the moonlight come the monsters big and small, sliding up your stairway and oozing down your hall. They aren’t very scary, in fact they’re rather sweet. So snuggle into bed and let them whisper, “Trick or treat!”

From School Library Journal

PreS-Gr 1—This playful, slightly eerie take on the "Over in the Meadow" rhyme/song opens on Halloween night. "Lurking in the swampland,/lanterns glowing like the sun,/sits a massive mama globster/and her bitty globby one." Among the other monsters joining in the atmospheric holiday countdown are a wee father wood imp and his tiny implings, a wrapped mommy mummy and her bandaged babies, an old granny zombie and her peeling zomblings, and a pale papa vampire and his blood-drinking nine. The creatures large and small are all actively engaged in lurching, racing, soaring, and gliding through town before finding a little girl who gathers all of the ghouls and puts them to bed. "Sleep now, morning's coming.'/you tell your monsters sweet,/so they snuggle into bed/and murmur, 'Trick or treat!' " The digital cartoon art plays with light and shadows as it unfolds across the spreads and adds to the gently spooky ambience. VERDICT A fun storytime read-aloud that's just right for the youngest Halloween revelers.—Luann Toth, School Library Journal

the book captures the mischievous fun of Halloween, without the accompanying terror.” -- Publishers Weekly, Starred Review

“A parade of monsters gathers for some hijinks in this delightful bedtime riff on the ‘Over in the Meadow’ nursery rhyme . . . Grabill makes an oft-adapted rhyme feel utterly fresh, thanks to some excellent vocabulary choices and the funny exchanges between monsters young and old. Okstad’s scraggily rendered monsters are pink cheeked and cuddle worthy

August 1, 2017

"Grabill and Okstad populate the familiar song 'Over in the Meadow' with all manner of beasties and ghouls and things that go bump in the night. . . . Okstad's digital illustrations are creepy and use shadows to particularly good effect. . . . A Halloween song that can break up the ghostly tales at storytime." -- Kirkus Reviews

September 2017

“A fun storytime read-aloud that’s just right for the youngest Halloween revelers.” -- School Library Journal

About the Author

Rebecca Grabill has been a zombie, a witch, a ghost, a vampire, and a whole lot of other less-ghoulish creatures—for Halloween. When it’s not Halloween, Rebecca is herself: a writer and mamma of five humans. She and her husband and humans live in Michigan along with numerous chickens and two cats. Visit her at RebeccaGrabill.com.Ella Okstad loves to draw ghosts, vampires, humans, cats, and all sorts of creatures. She lives and works as an illustrator in Trondheim, Norway. When she’s not in her office creating scary, cute, or peculiar creatures for books, she enjoys spending time with her husband, three boys, and a cat. Visit her at Okstad.com.

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