Thanks to all of you for your help! The list follows...
Natalie Clark
Children's Services Librarian
Johnson County Public Library
401 South State Street
Franklin, IN 46131
(317) 738-2098
nclark@jcplin.org
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I love Ahlberg's "Funnybones" for Halloween (not a Halloween book per=20
se, but it works--about some skeletons who go around scaring some=20
animal skeletons)
I also enjoy "In a dark, dark room" (I forget the author)
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Silverman, the big pumpkin (wonderful illus., like pulling up the big =
turnip=20
by having lots of hands helping
one about a grandmother and squeaky scary noises about the house at =
bedtime
tailypo (Galdone has one)
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Teeny Tiny / DePaola
& other versions of the Teeny Tiny Woman ("...give me my boooone..."
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_The Teeny-Tiny Woman: a ghost story_ by Paul Galdone would be perfect.
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I like these books that I use with K-1 students.=20
Mouse's First Halloween by Lauren Thompson
Halloween mice! by Bethany Roberts
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I have listened to "The Ghost of the One-Black Eye". I forget who the =
author=20
is, etc.
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Hi Natalie...How about _I Know an Old Lady Who
Swallowed a Pie_ by A. Jackson. I read it last year
and we made up hand movements to go with the actions.=20
It was so fun! The teachers enjoyed it more than the
kids, I think! Please post a hit--thanks!
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Two of my favorites are very repetitive and lots of fun. For Halloween:
"Big Pumpkin" by Erica Silverman; and for Thanksgiving "I know an old =
lady
who swallowed a Pie" by Alison Jackson.
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i always used brown bear brown bear and changed it to "black cat black =
cat
what do you see? i see a white ghost looking at me, etc, etc..made my =
own
story...
another good book is "A Dark, Dark, Tale" by Ruth Brown...c 1981 Dial =
Press
good luck...
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The Teeny Tiny Teacher: A Teeny Tiny Ghost Story Adapted a Teeny Tiny=20
Bit
by Stephanie Calmenson, Denis Roche (Illustrator)
pbk version just out; it is a couple of years old, and pretty good.
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The book which my little ones love is "Old Devil Wind" by Bill Martin.
After just a few pages, the students are making the sounds and repeating =
the
words along with you. We have a great time with that one!
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One Dark Night by Edna Preston - old but still wonderful - I'm using the
flannel board on Wednesday.
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How about "Big Pumpkin" by Erica Silverman? It's one of our favorites!
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Eve Bunting's Scary Scary Halloween is a cute one for that age.
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There is a book called: It Didn't Frighten Me! by Janet L.
Goss and Jerome C. Harste, illustrated by Steve Romney :
Willowisp Press, c.1985.
Great especially for little ones who scare easily. Nowhere
does it mention Halloween, so it's great to use when
"holiday" issues need to be soft-pedaled. The book in its
original form was accompanied by an audio tape of the story
with wonderfully appropriate spooky background music.
Have seen many copies since of the book alone, which makes
a great read-aloud itself (even without the tape)!
If you have both you're in luck. If not, and you can locate
it, PLEASE forward the information to me as the original is
at a library where I no longer have a connection!
The book alone (in paperback format) is available from
booksellers on Amazon, and is worth having.
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I can't do "halloween" at my school so I use A Dark, Dark Tale by Ruth =
Brown as a spooky, but not too scary book. It has dark, dark in almost =
every sentence.=20
Also That Apple is Mine by Katya Arnold has all the animals saying that =
apple is mine a bunch of times.=20
The House That Drac Built by Judy Sierra is very repetitive, but it =
would depend on the kids as far as scary level. My son loved it even a =
couple of years ago and he's six now, but some might be scared by it.
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Don't know the author, but "The House That Drac Built"
immediately came to mind. It's a story that adds a
sentence to every page so that by the time you get to
the end, the kids know the whole rhyme. It's worth
looking into!
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The Ghost Eyed Tree and The Magic Pumpkin by Bill Martin
One Fall Day - Molly Bang
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I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie by Alison Jackson
A funny book about Thanksgiving with repetitive verses.
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A good one for Thanksgiving might be _Millions of Cats_ by Wanda Gag.
_The Runaway Bunny_ by Margaret Wise Brown (IIRC), is another showing
thankfulness and having good repetitive lines.
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Two of my favorites are very repetitive and lots of fun. For Halloween:
"Big Pumpkin" by Erica Silverman; and for Thanksgiving "I know an old =
lady
who swallowed a Pie" by Alison Jackson.
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_The Big Pumpkin_ by Erica Silverman.
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Hi Natalie...How about _I Know an Old Lady Who
Swallowed a Pie_ by A. Jackson. I read it last year
and we made up hand movements to go with the actions.=20
It was so fun! The teachers enjoyed it more than the
kids, I think! Please post a hit--thanks!
Natalie Clark
Children's Services Librarian
Johnson County Public Library
401 South State Street
Franklin, IN 46131
(317) 738-2098
nclark@jcplin.org
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