More Halloween Fun! Kid Lit Inspired Costumes

As you saw earlier today, I'm celebrating Waldo's 25th birthday by dressing as him for Halloween.  Did I mention that last year I was Katniss Everdeen?

Katniss and her faithful goat...er, cow.

I'm not the only one going literary this Halloween.  Check out these book-inspired costumes that were rounded up over on Apartment Therapy*.

* I swear, I don't work for or profit from Apartment Therapy.  They just seem to have a lot of kid lit posts lately.

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Happy Halloween!

I bet you can't find me in this picture.

I know, I know.  The stripes are wrong and the glasses should be round.  To that I say: I'm not going to buy fake glasses when I already own glasses and the shirt thing has really been stressing me out for days, but it's the best I could do.  I am wearing blue pants and brown shoes (which you can't see).  But I don't have a cane.

Moving right along...

Think your library is cool.  Check out this haunted library in Deep River Connecticut.  You can't beat that.  Oooh!  And read all the way to the end (or skip. whatevs.) for more haunted libraries.

Have a creeptastic day!

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Trailer Tuesday: The Monstrumologist

Tomorrow is Halloween!  I've prepped by watching Halloween (naturally), picking up some delicious single-serve bags of kettle corn for the trick-or-treaters and ordering (though not yet receiving!) some pieces for my costume off of Amazon.  One thing I haven't done is read a scary book.  Though I totally should.  And so should you!

Might I recommend Rick Yancey's The Monstumologist?  It's so goosebumpingly good.  And yes, I'll admit that since I usually get my reading in at night just before bed, I stayed up really late one night to finish it, just so that I didn't have to read it in the creepy dark for one more night.  Whenever students tell me they are looking for a scary book, this one is at the top of my list*.

The Monstrumologist by Rick Yancey





What scary books are your favorites?

* The list also traditionally includes Alvin Schwartz' Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark and Joseph Bruchac's Skeleton Man.

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Have a Spooktacular Halloween!

Boo!

Scared you, didn't I?

No? Well, then perhaps these tales of terror will do the trick.

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz

More Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark by Alvin Schwartz

Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones by Alvin Schwartz

When I was growing up, anytime there was a dark and stormy day, my friend Tania and I would turn off all the lights, put on a tape (yes, a cassette tape) of scary organ music and take turns reading the stories from these books by the light of a flashlight. We would then proceed to freak out and have nightmares.

Now, as a middle school librarian, I'm sharing the joys of scary stories with my students. For Halloween, I put out a display of 10-15 scary story books. Only one of them is never on the display - Alvin Schwartz's Scary Stories Treasury, which compiles the three books. At lunchtime, students like to grab the book, plop down on the couches and read the stories to one another - even on warm sunny days.

Another title that I read as an adult and managed to scare me silly was Joseph Bruchac's Skeleton Man. Creepster!

So, whatever you do to celebrate today - trick-or-treating, dressing up, staying home and watching scary movies or reading scary stories, or nothing at all, Have a Happy Halloween!

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