Halloween Day

This is a great book. It's been spot-on perfect for all three of my very different kids, two boys and a girl, who now range from 12 to 5. Each of them would give it 5 stars. This book explains how the ten kids in one class decide on costumes for Halloween, and it shows some of them preparing (making or buying their costumes). The reader has to figure out the inspiration for each costume from the pictures; the text is from the point of view of one little girl commenting (in a very kind way) on everyone's choice of costume. I think what my kids like so much is that the way the class celebrates Halloween is very much the way they always have in school, and they are able to discover new details (e.g. the teacher looking through the window and finding her own Halloween costume on one page) the more times they read the book. It's still a go-to favorite for my 5 year old, so we've been reading this one for nine years and counting. Thanks, Anne Rockwell!

It's Halloween day and what a magical day it is for the students. It's that one day a year where they dress up in costume and go to school. It's the magic of figuring out who is who under that costume and seeing that child's current passion at this stage in their lives! The book starts out with a little girl adjusting her black cat ears in her hair and thinks to herself how excited she is about wearing her halloween costume to school. What will her classmates have choosen to wear on this day? On the next page it shows her class lining up for their costume parade around the school and how some of us look beautiful and scary, but how everyone looks great. The book goes on to show how certain children in her class went about picking out their costume and even shows their teacher Mrs. Madoff spying her costume she will wear.. but you really have to look! I remember the excitement of going to school dressed up in my mostly home made & purchased halloween costume. How we all loved to parade around the school showing each other our costumes and best of all the party that ended the day! I love that the author choose to have children of different nationalities in the class, so that your child might identify with one of them.... hey mom that looks like me or I love dressing up as......, what a wonderful book to share with your child.