Twelve Haunted Rooms of Halloween

PreS-Gr 2—A wary bear peeks into 12 rooms to find a variety of Halloween characters in this reworking of "The Twelve Days of Christmas." Black cats, wicked witches, jack-o-lanterns, dancing zombies, and howling werewolves are among the things he finds until a foldout spread reveals a party attended by 12 trick-or-treaters. What raises this title above other books of this type, including Guy Vasilovich's The 13 Nights of Halloween (HarperCollins, 2011), is the "I Spy"-type format. Each picture includes all of the items mentioned previously along with the new addition, and readers are invited to search each spread to find them. Children will want to pore over the not-too-scary pictures until they find every creature mentioned in the rhyme. A fun addition to Halloween collections.—Martha Simpson, Stratford Library Association, CT