“The Best Christmas Pageant Ever” will enjoy hearing from the Herdmans again.
Yes, there are some unrealistic parts of the story, but that was true of the first story, too. This one is funny and enjoyable, without being too long. A nice addition to your Herdman library.
It’s a known fact that whenever there’s trouble, the six Herdman kids are behind it. Lose a pair of pants? It’s the Herdmans. Find your window broken? The Herdmans are behind it. Find yourself painted green? Blame the Herdmans. It never gets old. Or, at least it never got old before.

But this year is different. This year, as everyone is preparing for Halloween, and loading up on candy, the Mayor does something drastic to protect the town from the Herdmans.he cancels Halloween. Sure, without Halloween, the Herdmans are sure to keep their distance from everyone, and cease from stealing the candy that every child has collected. But without the Herman’s to contend with, it would also mean that candy is banned for the season. And Halloween just isn’t Halloween with a heaping bag full of goodies that will rot your teeth and make you sick. Now, Halloween has turned into a horrible, boring event that will take place at school, with a bunch of parents dressed up as witches and ghouls, ghosts and monsters. Instead of candy, there’ll be donuts. Instead of trick or treating, there’ll be supervised bobbing for apples. This is sure to be the worst Halloween ever, Herdmans or not.

But when the lights go off, suddenly everything changes, and everyone begins to wonder whether the Herdmans have what it takes to pull off a spooktacular Halloween that will leave the town cheering.

The second grade teacher is a sweetheart will she finally win the pumpkin pie baking contest this year? Then there’s the really scary story floating around about the real mummy that comes every Halloween it can’t be true, can it? But then . . . the mummy gasp! shows up at school for Halloween! Cool fun for younger readers and not really scary .

It all started with a bet. Joey Pignattano, Jigsaw’s friend, is going to eat a worm on Halloween for a dollar. Everyone except Bigs Maloney thinks it’s a gross, and I mean gross, idea. Finally, Joey’s big day comes. Jigsaw brings some worms for Joey, but just before the school’s annual pie contest, the worms disappear! This looks like a job for Jigsaw Jones and Mila Yeh. This book was a little bit duller than “The Case of the Spooky Sleepover”, another Jigsaw Jones book. Good luck on new books James Preller.

My six year old loves these books. And for his parents? We couldn’t be happier to find a series of well written mysteries for kids. Preller’s situations and characters are fun and up to date. We’re in the middle of reading them all and have liked each one enormously. One caveat: this particular book had me reading a few sections with my stomach in my throat. Of course my kids thought that Joey Pignattano eating a worm was nothing more than great fun. I guess you just have to be under 20 to understand!

It displays different American holidays and rates Halloween as Emily Elizabeth’s and Clifford’s favorites. They show Clifford in different costumes and let’s your child interact by asking which would “you” suggest. My 3 years old really enjoys this one.

I thought this book was so adorable how on every holiday Clifford does something special like for Christmas he dresses like Santa and gives out gifts, on Easter he plays the Easter bunny, and on Halloween he always dresses up, in the book he dressed up as many different things such as the devil, a clown, a witch, and even a ghost! Hes the most adorable dog in the world!! At Emily’s party he was a ghost and everyone loved him. How can’t you love Clifford? I know I love him! This book is suitable from the ages 0 6. Everyone will love this book. This book teaches people to help other people and still have fun, like most Clifford books he always shows people how to love, share, and get along.

Sure, it’s a kid book, but adults will enjoy it too. I’m a big fan of Gris Grimly’s artwork, and this book is a showcase. There is a lot of detail in his pictures, so you can just sit and study the pages for a while.

The little poems are nice too, but for me, the artwork is what sold it. If you like monsters, you will love this book!

Sure, it’s a kid book, but adults will enjoy it too. I’m a big fan of Gris Grimly’s artwork, and this book is a showcase. There is a lot of detail in his pictures, so you can just sit and study the pages for a while.

The little poems are nice too, but for me, the artwork is what sold it. If you like monsters, you will love this book!