Description: Creep your way through a spooky farm and meet cackling witches, howling beasts, and floating ghosts in this "Old MacDonald Had a Farm"-inspired rhyme, perfect for fans of Halloween ages 3-7! Includes a poster printed in Pantone on the inside of the jacket!
Let's explore a haunted farm.Eeek I! Eeek-I! Oh! Enter the haunted farm--if you dare! Venture into a foggy field full of howling, growling beasts and cackling witches. Cackle! Step into the rustling corn of a scarecrow's maze. Eeek! Wind through the haunted woods full of ghastly ghouls. Woooo! And open the creaking barn doors to uncover a final, not-so chilling surprise: a fabulously spooky barn dance! Eeek-I! Eeek-I! Oh! Includes a poster printed in Pantone on the inside of the jacket!
Review Quotes: "Let's explore a haunted farm."
Three pale-skinned trick-or-treaters set off. Conroy's verse is inspired by "Old MacDonald," making this one a bouncy read-aloud, but this farm's a bit more unsettling than the one from the beloved nursery rhyme. Supernatural sounds ("With a growl-growl here / and a howl-howl there") and the refrain, "Eeek-I! Eeek-I! Oh!" anchor the text. In Ilic's jaggedly stylized illustrations, the kids pass wolves, a scarecrow (and three spiky, smugly undeterred crows) guarding a maze filled with toothy mummies, a witch with rat and cat familiars, and stark, ghost-inhabited trees. Finally, skeletons panic the trio, who abandon their candy-filled buckets. Seeking refuge, they find a derelict barn filled with darting bats. But wait--what's going on inside? It's a Halloween party, with cobwebs and light-string decorations and all the creepy critters they encountered earlier grinning and dancing to more festive sounds ("With a boogie here / and a box step there"). Neon-green backgrounds melt into iridescent blue, then shocking fuchsia and fierce crimson, elevating the appropriately eerie, expressionist art. A black cat lurks on virtually every page--yet another element to invite enthusiastic reader participation. Slightly scary, entirely entertaining interactive Halloween fun. (Picture book. 4-8)--Kirkus Reviews