It's a band of animated skeletons versus daring children in this rhyming Halloween picture book tale, told in delightful nonsense language. Here the children are "tyke-tots" and the adults "tall-bigs," while the skeletons are called "SKUL-A-MUG-MUGS." As the story begins, the SKUL-A-MUG-MUGS descend on a small, quiet town on Halloween night. "They ring-ruckled round, enclupping the town, with quake-quiver-up and scree-scrackle down." The SKUL-A-MUG-MUGS...