Childrens Halloween

"The look on our faces is easy to read: " "a little night music is just what we need!" A late-spring night sky fills with bats flocking to a theater, already echoing and booming with delightful sounds of music. Bat music--plunky banjoes, bat-a-tat drums, improvised instruments, country ballads, and the sweet cries of a bat with the blues. Join this one-of-a-kind music festival as the bats celebrate the rhythm of the night, and the positive power of music.

"Something Wicked Dwells" has been published in numerous literary journals including The Horror Zine Summer Digest 2012 and Speculative Poets of Texas (2015). The poem is perfect for teachers to play to their students to engage and encourage them in poetry and the genre of horror and all things scary. Archived at the UCLA Library of Special Collections.

Farmer Brown does not like Halloween, so he draws the shades, puts on his footy pajamas, and climbs into bed. But do you think the barnyard animals have any respect for a man in footy pajamas? No, they do not. For them the Halloween party has just begun. And we all know these critters far prefer tricks over treats. There are big surprises in store for Farmer Brown!

Brad is a paperboy who wants to be a rock star, so when he discovers the band Black Day playing in old Professor Hammer's garage, he really wants to join. The band's monsters have a different idea and send him away. ''No humans!'' Brad sets out to change their minds, but the monsters have bigger problems than finding a bass player.

Uh oh! A librarian has left the window open, and now it’s time for fun-loving bats of all ages to fly in for a night in the stacks. Bats at the Library is a recipient of starred reviews from both Publishers Weekly and Horn Book Magazine.

A young girl receives a fright when her father brings home a new Halloween decoration. As the story progresses, she learns more about the "monster" in the box and her own body, and comes to grips with her fears. An amusing story for Halloween, rendered in clever rhyme and beautifully illustrated by Dan Monroe.

In the fall of 1969, three brothers, Adam, Carl and Mark, venture out on Halloween night in what would be their last time trick-or-treating together. On the most sacred of all nights, these brothers will try almost anything in their relentless pursuit to acquire as much candy as they can during the Super Bowl of sugar bliss, Halloween. The oldest brother (Adam) creates a plan of attack that will allow them to retrieve the maximum amount of candy in the shortest period of time.

Come join the zombie kids as they head off to school.

Based on the much loved African-American spiritual, children will enjoy learning about the human body and having their funny bones tickled at the same time.

Shifty McGifty and Slippery Sam don’t just make amazing cakes. These two brave bakers solve wacky mysteries too! Halloween at St Spectre’s school brings out the cheekiest of ghosts! And who is to blame when the weather goes crazy? A power-grabbing red panda, maybe? Certainly not the raccoon gang fixing the museum’s toilets - they’ve got dastardly plans of their own!

Join a silly collection of dancing animals, all dressed in scary skeleton costumes, in a rhyming tale about the bones in your body and how to shake them all about! This Halloween story, a fun adaptation of the song “Dem Bones”, uses repetitive rhyming to inspire children to join in and shake along!

Ghoulia, Auntie Departed, and Tragedy the greyhound are back for another adventure at Crumbling Manor! They’re preparing for the annual Dead but Not Departed New Year’s Eve party. A young ghost arrives, and he seems to be fading away. Turns out, the ghost has forgotten his own name and is in danger of vanishing entirely - all because there’s no one left alive who remembers him. Not on Ghoulia’s watch! If she can help the ghost figure out his name, she’ll be able to keep him safe. But will Ghoulia be able to discover the truth before it’s too late?

The troublemaking students of Ms. Jenkins' class arrive at school one day to discover a substitute creacher has come to put a stop to their monkey business! He regales them with mind-boggling stories about his former students who didn't follow the rules: Keith the glue-eater, Zach the daydreamer, and Hank the prankster, to name a few. But even this multi-tentacled, yellow-spotted, one-eyed monster's cautionary tales about the consequences of mischief-making can't seem to change the students' wicked ways until he reveals the spookiest and most surprising story of all: his own.

Ten Little Monsters are going trick-or-treating. But what will the Ten Little Monsters do when they meet a wailing ghost? Two hubble-bubbling witches? And a SPOOKY spider? Count along with the Ten Little Monsters in this action-packed, rhyming adventure!

It's time for Halloween, and Mr. Fish is nervous about visiting a haunted house with his friends - but he just may be surprised that it's not all so scary!

Now grown with their own children, they reflect on their childhood and reminisce over Samuel helping Katie face her fears while Samuel learns to share.

But when Mittens tries to paint spooky faces, put up spooky cobwebs, and make orange cookies, he makes a mess instead! Halloween activities take center stage in this sweet beginning listener about Mittens.

"Nell'orto di Castelteschio cresce una varietà rarissima di zucche dai dentini molto affilati: le Zucche Mannare! Ma un Gatto Fantasma minaccia di rubarle... brrr. che fifa felina! Mi aspetta una notte da incubo!"

"Brrr, che fifa felina! Tenebrosa, la mia quasi fidanzata, mi ha trascinato a Castelteschio per trovare sette leggendarie pergamene che custodiscono il 'Segreto Più Prezioso'... Sarà un'avventura da brivido!". (Geronimo Stilton)

Für viele Kinder ist der Herbst die aufregendste und bunteste Jahreszeit. Sie feiern Erntedank- und Herbstfeste, basteln Kastanienmännchen, spielen in raschelnden Laubbergen und freuen sich auf Halloween oder Sankt Martin. Der Liedermacher Ulrich Steier hat die schönsten Momente dieser Jahreszeit musikalisch eingefangen - mal verspielt und frech, mal ruhig und besinnlich.