Cute Book
This book is hilarious and great to read aloud (if you can get passed the initial "yuck" factor). The first time I read it to my kids I regretted not previewing it first and actually stopped reading it and put it down b/c I was worried that it would scare them, but they begged me to finish it and they loved it. Probably not for very young kids.
old-fashioned Grimes-style book
Dealing with death right off the bat and the expression "passed on," this book is not for everyone. However, it has clever twists that entertain the young reader and the older reader. I first read it to a 3 and 7-year-old. They took turns finding the spiders and turning the pages. Before long, they were saying the song-poetry-refrain with me. A no-nonsense grandma, an unafraid boy--but what a ghost! Illustrations are gross, complicated, scary, awful--the more you look, the more there is to see. Parents should read this one first, but I'm glad I discovered the end right with the children. I bought it for them and kept it for ME...bought another for them!
Great book!
My kids love this book. Their ages are 4 and 9. After the first day of reading it, they could both say the rhyme about pumpkin pies. I would highly recommend this book...anything (within reason of course) that gets kids to love to read is an A+ in my book.
Forever searching for the perfect pumpkin pie
My four-year old found this book at the library and he's repeatedly, over the last year, checked it out or renewed. So now he has his own copy! My son just thinks it's comical how the cranky one-eyed ghost berates a no-nonsense grandma into making the perfect pumpkin pie.
the perfect pumpkin pie - excellent book
This book is not only enjoyable for the listener, but fun to read too. That's saying something about a children's book. My 2 year old grandson and my 2 year old nephew both recite pieces of this book as if it were a song. My grandson has the book nearly memorized even though it's long enough that it takes me about 15 minutes to read it to him.
The story line is phenomenal. The illustrations are very well done and are complicated enough to keep the child looking at the book day after day.
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