Happy Halloween

My wife and I both loved Curious George as children, and bought this book to read to our 5 month old daughter. She enjoyed hearing the collection of short poems as much as her mother and I enjoyed reading them to her. She giggles and kicks her feet everytime we read it to her. We loved it so much, we bought the Christmas book today and will be buying the Good Night book shortly.

We bought this book last week, as a way to introduce my 13 month old daughter to halloween. My husband and I spent a long time looking over all the Halloween books at a major chain book store, and finally settled on this one. I'm so glad we did! It gently sets up understanding for all the aspects of Halloween and has cute illustrations. We read the book twice before going to pick out our pumpkin, and my daughter recognized real life pumpkins right away, and got very excited! She doesn't yet know Curious George but loves the monkey pictures all over the book, and I swear she's grasping the concept of the monkey dressing up like a cat, monster, etc. All the other other books we looked at didn't quite have all the dimensions of Halloween, and this fit the bill in a cute and gentle way. Pumpkins, costumes, decorations, Trick-or-Treating, parties, bobbing for apples, family and friends, it's all there. Can't go wrong. I'd recommend this book for 1-3 year old Halloween introductions. She loves to flip through it on her own, too, a good plus :)

I like this book! My son loves George and I was looking for some books to introduce him to the "lighter" side of Halloween. This book does the trick. The illustrations have just the feeling I was looking for -- pumpkins, autumn leaves, kids in costumes, but nothing creepy. The book is made up of several different "poems" and they each have their own meter and rhyme, which makes it a little awkward to read at first, but once you have gone through it a couple times you have it down and it flows more naturally.