As Clive is known for his very dark and fantastic tales, including halloween, he indeed uses these talents to draw a magnificent place where many children surely would love to hide.

I love looking through this book, Halloween is my favorite holiday and these old graphics make me feel all nostalgic. I even got one of the pictures tattooed on my back shoulder. Cool book.

I recently told this story to a 4th grade class for school and they really got into it. I would recommend this book for your little tyke. It is a fun and interactive book with a Halloween twist. I hope you enjoy this book as much as I did and spread it around so everyone’s kids can have a fun time.

This is a darling book. The little dog dreams of being something terrifying for Halloween, but to his horror, his well meaning mother makes him a hot dog costume, complete with mustard. The other dogs make fun of poor Oscar the book is full of wiener jokes until Oscar and his ridiculous costume save the day. I put this book on my top ten list for the kindergarten crowd.

Poor Oscar Myer wiener dog a hotdog dog gets teased all the time. The bully dogs are always laughing at him because of his size and shape. For Halloween, Oscar’s mom buys him a costume that is a hotdog roll with mustard on it. Oscar is so embarrassed, but wears it to avoid hurting his mothers feelings. Oscar gets laughed at once again but the story twists to allow Oscar a chance to be a hero. Oscar wins the respect of the bullies and they all share their Halloween dog treats with him. Silly story with decent, basic illustrations.
An adorable book that my preschool children want to hear again and again. This is a standard book in my preschool during the month of October.

It is so funny with a lesson to boot!

They grow old, and even the best of them, one day, lose the power of flight. On very rare occasions, however, a broom can lose its power without warning, and fall, with its passenger, to the earth below . which is just what happened one cold autumn night many years ago.”

So begins The Widow’s Broom, the gentle, strangely captivating book by Chris Van Allsburg, who received Caldecott medals for Jumanji and The Polar Express. The story gets under way when the lonely widow Minna Shaw finds a wounded, sky fallen witch in her vegetable garden. The witch disappears before dawn, but leaves her old, presumably defunct broom behind. Minna begins to use it around the house and finds that “it was no better or worse than brooms she’d used before.” However, one morning, Minna sees the broom sweeping by itself!

Opportunistically, she trains it to chop wood and fetch water. When the neighbors find out about this “wicked, wicked thing” posing as an innocent, hardworking broom , they accost the widow and demand that the broom be burned. Are they successful in separating the lonely widow and her diligently sweeping friend? This is a wonderfully suspenseful book to read aloud and young listeners will earnestly hope for the broom’s survival. Still, older, wiser readers, ages 8 and older, will be swept up in the story, too.

It is gloriously good humoured, wonderfully illustrated, and very affectionate. It is about an unamed witch who is flying along, first she drops her hat, then her bow, then her wand. Each time an animal finds it for her and brings it back then joins her on the broom.

Then, when her broom breaks in half a dragon tries to eat her, but she is saved by her animals, and they ride off on a ‘truly magnificent broom’. Happy endings for everyone all round well maybe except the dragon who goes hungry. Interestingly, the british version does not have ‘witch withou fries’ as fries are the Americanisation the British version has ‘witch without chips’. I notice there are at least two variations on this cultural difference, and nice to see it I think the chips one works best, well it does for me anyway

Lovely illustrations, bright, clear and colourful. Very likeable characters drawn. The real magic is in the words it is a rhyming poem throughout and very very clever nice rhythm and the children can anticipate it well. We use it to act out during our sessions too which the children really love. there is a great deal to do and think about to extend children’s learning from this as well as social lessons cooperation, good nature, helping your friends .

My son loves books, but usually will only sit through a pretty short one. We read about 50 pages together before stopping and the next day he brought it to me to finish the other 50. When we finished he told me that all he wants from Santa this year is more Geronimo books!

There’s always room for one more on this affable witch’s broomstick. or is there? In another mild mannered tale from the creators of the Smarties Prize winning picture book, The Gruffalo, a witch and her happily purring cat fly through the wind on their broomstick, without a care in the world, until the witch’s black hat blows away. In the process of retrieving it, they pick up another passenger, a polite and helpful dog. All goes well until the witch’s hair bow flies off. And then her wand. And then real disaster strikes in the shape of a big red dragon, a broken broom, and some very important but notably absent friends.

Julia Donaldson’s story, though not earthshaking in plot or rhyme, is a pleasant way to pass the time leading up to the witching hour Halloween! especially when paired with the friendly illustrations by Axel Scheffler. Readers will especially love the final illustration, in which our heroes solve their space problems once and for all. Ages 4 to 7

An adorable story about kindness and good Kharma! The witch , who is usually portrayed as an evil character, in this story is kindhearted and opens her broom up for needy creatures along the way. The creatures in return ban together to save the witch when she encounters danger.