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3.83 AVERAGE
3.83 AVERAGE
Bunting's adorable book about the bones set in the backyard amused us both.
No one likes to hear, "Read it again, Mama!" more than I do.
No one likes to hear, "Read it again, Mama!" more than I do.
I've been reading this book to my 3.5 year old every night, she loves it! It's a great Halloween book with excellent illustrations. Lucky for me both of my girl's love spooky Halloween stuff so they were not frightened by this book at all.
Creepy story for theatrical readaloud or telling; very neat woodcuts by Kurt Cyrus.
This takes a routine piece of Halloween iconography, the safe and even silly plastic skeleton, and renders it slowly, creepingly unnerving. A lot of that is in the art, which has dynamic woodcut-style black lines and copious detail, and frames the skeleton superbly, obscuring the face, vignetting creepy little details. It's not flawless (weaker human/animal figures; the rhyming stumbles) but for a book I picked up on a whim from the Halloween shelf, I'm pleasantly surprised.
Mixed feelings on this one. I liked the rhyming text and the spooky tone to the story that could draw in older kids. There was something about the premise that didn't sit with me right and just ended up coming off as creepy versus enjoyably scary.
Great Halloween book for kids who ask for a scary story
This is a great spooky bedtime read. Not great for the library storytime environment because it's too spooky, but it's a bit of a scary mystery.
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Even I found this to be a fair bit creepy. Good read though, especially for someone around the age of ten I would imagine. I wouldn't give it to a 5-6 year old, but in a couple of years I'd definitely recommend it to my nephews.