Halloween Pie

My son received Halloween Pie for his 3rd birthday and it's become a family favorite. In fact, for Halloween this year, we purchased two new editions. We replaced the wornout original in our home library and donated the other edition to our elementary school's library. Both my boys, ages 9 and 6, love the book. And the recipe for Halloween Pie is truly fantastic. The six-year-old makes it himself and brought it into his class for his 'star student week." And when we needed to contribute a traditional American dish to UN Day at our international school in Panama, we made Halloween Pie.

My daughter loves this book and is making me do a review on it! She loves the bright, contrasting colors of the excellent illustrations. I appreciate the colors too with the fine use of chiaroscuro and the hungry fiends after Old Witch's Halloween Pie and yes, of course, the silly tombstone epitaphs. The recipe in the back is such an intelligent hook to get the ones that do the buying, us parents, to say yes to this one! I appreciate an entertaining book with clever marketing. You have to not only sell the kids but the parents too--Tunnell and O'Malley--GREAT JOB! Note: This is a great bedtime story book because all of the culprits that ate Old Witch's pie fall asleep in her house. They aren't scary and my daughter scares pretty easily. I highly recommmend it! Great price too! 9/10 stars.

We discovered this book two years ago in our public library and fell in love with it. The story is clever and the illustrations are excellent. Even though the book is filled with ghosts and zombies it's not too scary to read to my 3, 4 and 6 year-olds. My favorite thing is how FUN it is for the reader. You can't help but almost perform the story as you read it with witchy and windy voices. It has become a new family tradition for us to read Halloween Pie for the weeks leading up to Halloween each year. And of course, we make our own Halloween pie from the recipe at the back of the book.

I really enjoyed Halloween Pie. It was funny. I highly recommend to anyone who likes a good book. What will happen to this halloween pie?