It’s great to see funky bugs rather than the usual barn animals etc. The spooky theme is also fun and different.

This book is NOT SUPPOSED to have, you know, spells and that kind of stuff. It is explaining a brief history of WitchCraft, not just New Age and Wicca. But it is a great explanation to non Pagans and people just interested in magic k making throughout the ages. OK? Besides all the Eyewitness books have excellent pictures, and good text. If you want to learn Wicca like me, read Exploring Wicca or Drawing Down the Moon . If you are merely curious about magic k making, READ THIS BOOK!!!

This book was meant to serve as part picture book, part mini packet of magical trivia. It was not marketed as an actual religious text of any stripe. I think that this book can be used to open up discussion between open minded parents and their kids. If a young person sees something in the book and asks, “what’s this?”, parents then have the opportunity to actually TALK to their kid s about something ancient and potentially meaningful.Sure, there are better books on the history and practice of magic and witchcraft; but this book is meant to spark an interest, not encompass an entire cirriculum.
This book is fascinating! The pages are repleat with exquisite photographs of actual artifacts. Covers a diverse sampling of witchcraft from around the world and through time. Blatantly honest and frighteningly factual.
We love the characters on Jakers
A perfect treat for your littlest one, filled with costume adorned baby faces.

William is attending the annual Halloween picnic at Mudsock Meadow and things are not going well. They are at the edge of Quicksand Bottoms and there is an eerie glow that people say is caused by the ghost of Titus Dinworthy, a miner who disappeared about one hundred years ago. When William says that the glow is due to swamp gas, he is laughed at.

The first event is the pumpkin carving contest, which he fails at miserably. At the fishing booth, he manages to tangle his line with Hester’s and she laughs at him saying “Peee youuuuu, smelly old William.” He tries to compete in the pumpkin spitting contest but is disqualified because he accidentally swallows the seed. In the tug o war, he slips and falls at Hester’s feet. He has high hopes in the dress up contest, but his old sheet costume is mediocre compared to the others.

However, the “ghost” reappears and when everyone else flees, William walks out and challenges the ghost. Even though he lands face first in the mud, he is a hero to everyone else and Hester sits by him and calls him her hero.

Beautifully illustrated and with a delightful moral, this story is an excellent one for young children. I strongly recommend it.

then twists it sharply again in a nasty, vicious direction
NOW AND WHEN What happens when five teens are allowed one question each from a backwood’s psychic. Even though I could see where the story was going, I was completely sucker punched by the epilogue. It still haunts and eats at me.

BEST FRIENDS Told in two voices. One friend tells a story through rose colored glasses, the other tells the bitter truth.and the ending is a bitter one indeed.
MY REAL MOTHER Our heroine searches for her “real” mother when her adoptive mother is less than sympathetic to her demands. You just KNOW that the “real” mother is going to be someone our heroine won’t want to know. And the ending holds a breathtaking shock for the reader.

These are the four that stand out in my mind, but all all well written, shivery and a good choice for a spooky night at home or even for a read aloud among teens. Lots of fun.
I have been a fan of Vivian Vande Velde ever since I read CURSES, INC. AND OTHER STORIES. I quickly followed that up by reading several of her other books, including NOW YOU SEE IT. and COMPANIONS OF THE NIGHT. Ms. Vande Velde is the master of spooky stories, whether they be contemporary, paranormal, or fantasy. What she’s even better at, though, is writing short stories that have a way of staying with you long after you finish reading them.
With ALL HALLOWS’ EVE, the author has brought us thirteen original short stories that, as a whole, scared the bejesus out
of me. Whether the story is two pages long or ten, you find yourself immersed in the life of whatever tale the author is telling and find yourself coming out, at the end of it, glad you’re reading with the lights on.

The stories in this collection include:

COME IN AND REST A SPELL
MARIAN
MORGAN ROEHMAR’S BOYS
ONLY ON ALL HALLOWS’ EVE
CEMETERY FIELD TRIP
BEST FRIENDS
PRETENDING
I WANT TO THANK YOU
WHEN AND HOW
WHEN MY PARENTS COME TO VISIT
EDWARD, LOST AND FAR FROM HOME
MY REAL MOTHER
HOLDING ON

There is nothing timid about this collection. I have always loved Halloween; it is, in fact, my second favorite holiday, beat out only by Christmas. After reading these short stories, though, I will never look at hay rides, cemeteries, school trips, cackling old ladies, or scarecrows on front porches in the same way. I read, on a regular basis, the stories of horror/paranormal authors Dean Koontz and Stephen King, and these halloween stories by Vivian Vande Velde freaked me out just as much as those by my horror heroes. Be warned, though.

Read MORGAN ROEHMAR’S BOYS, CEMETERY FIELD TRIP, and MY REAL MOTHER at your own risk and with those lights on.
I love this Halloween pop up book as well as the other “Bugs In a Box” books. If you don’t know what to be for Halloween buy this book. There are many spooky pop ups, such as Dracubug, Frankenbug shouldn’t there be a glow in the dark feature in this book? , and for the finale there’s a free surprise on the last page. I won’t ruin the surprise for you, but when you get the prize, it will help you decide what to be for Halloween you’ll be able to look “buggy”, too! .
This is a very nice pop up book with spooky illustrations. My children want it read to them over and over again. Definitely worth the money. However, my toddler has ripped the pop ups several times, probably better for kids over 3.

if you get off on paying no attention to other people then screwing them over, well . aside from being on messed up freak . you’ll love this book. Not for the morally minded, there are various rude appearances. But not for the fanboys either, the main female character is a rock weilding murderer still in toddler clothes. no need to go to tokyopop’s website to preview the first chapters, just buy the book. deffinetly worth it.

They should call this All Boring Eve.I like horror stories especially one’s
that involve Halloween.Yet these stories were’nt scary.The only story in the book I liked was Cemetery Field Trip.This class goes on a field trip to a
cemetery hence the name .A girl named Janelle gets seperated from the rest when she thinks she hears a kitten meowing and goes to look for it.She walks
up to a mausoleum where she hears mewing she steps inside for a closer look.Yet instead finds a nasty old pervert.He drags her inside and locks the door.Inside there are 5 coffins.While the man holds Janelle at knife point.
There’s something more evil awaitng him.This book is good for young kids yet
if your looking for a real scare you might want to look somewhere else.

VandeVelde can do no wrong as far as I am concerned. This collection will have teen and older I’ve got a good 35 years on the intended audience horror enthusiasts turning pages all night.
While gore mongers won’t be satisfied, those who like to be creeped out, chilled and even a little upset will be delighted.

Elizabeth and Clifford are a winning combination.
Emily Elizabeth tells of Clifford’s very first halloween, all the fun they had and how much trouble Clifford got himself into. But even though Clifford is big now, he is still just as much fun to read about and Emily Elizabeth still loves him.

This book really isn’t given enough appreciation to end where it really excels. Many readers, going into this, are frankly in the wrong for carrying too many expections along with them. Here you will not find the familiar lodgings of a Slave Laboresque horror/humor mashing. While Lenore and Johnny the Homicidal Maniac present us with worlds that are, in essense, fantastic reinterpretations of our own, Benjamin Roman and Keith Giffen present the reader with a world governed by unfamiliar rules. Not provided with a safety net narration, the reader is thrust into a world which on the surface is similiar to ours, but underneath has jarring and facsinating differences that work with the story elements toward more and more unlikely scenarios. The narration told just enough to leave me pondering like a child over the laws that govern this fictional universe. It’s a blast just to observe the goings ons, read the off beat exchanges between characters, and watch the overarching and glib plot unfold.

The hints of supernatural twists in this volume are enough to drive me to the next one, which promises an elaboration of the only glimpsed at zombie theme.

However, I couldn’t stop reading those delicously macabre works of childrens literature. I vowed from the moment I read his first book that I would become a writer, and I am currently working up to that dream. I have also never failed to read a work by this amazing author, even as I surpassed the targeted age group. However, I still enjoy his books immensely! He is still one of the most intriguing authors ever even among my new favorites King, Koonts, Barker, etc. . This book is not just for children, in fact, I would not reccomend half of the stories in it for children. They’re often sinister, wicked, and tastefully morbid. I reccomend this book to the advanced child all the way up to the elderly adult. It is truly a work of genious, even though all of the tales are not written by Stine himself.

On the threshold of R.L. Stine’s favorite holiday, Halloween, he’s come out with a wonderful new book that is like a witches brew with multiple ingredients. The main ingredient in BEWARE is ’scary’. Added to the mix of scary stories, are some funny ones, tantalizing poems, a horror comic, spooky illustrations, and like a cherry on top of an ice cream sundae, are R.L. Stine’s intriguing introductions. I really liked reading an assortment of thrilling stories, R.L. Stine’s favorites by different authors,the two he wrote himself, and two he retold. The scary ones definitely gave me chills. I now have a new appreciation for rats, ferris wheels, halloween costumes, elevators, witches, ghosts, and all kinds of creatures that can surface from one’s imagination. Everyone will have their own favorites.Another cool thing are the spiders and cobwebs that trickle down each page while you read.This is a great book for both children and adults who like twists and thrills.

This book is called Cliffords first Halloween and its about when Clifford wasnt so big he was a little puppy and he went out for Halloween so he needed a costume. He tried an angel and it didnt work so he tried a ghost and it was perfect. So they got all of the treats and boat that they could and after she had a party. You learn to have fun in life and you only live it once. I would recommend it.