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Halloween

A Peek-Through Halloween Book of Counting

Part of My Little World

Author Patricia Hegarty
Illustrated by Fhiona Galloway
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Board Book
$8.99 US
Tiger Tales
7.5"W x 7.5"H x 0.61"D  
On sale Jul 06, 2021 | 16 Pages | 9781664350007
Up to Kindergarten
Reading Level: Lexile AD490L
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Part of the My Little World series, this playful book of numbers features a haunted house on Halloween with concentric window shapes, peek-through pages and a fun rhyming story to teach children to count from 1 to 10.

Do you dare to enter the haunted house in this playful book of numbers? Young readers will learn to count from 1 to 10 when they meet a cast of adorable, cheerful characters who are all celebrating Halloween night. Step inside the house to meet glowing jack o'lanterns, hopping frogs, floating ghosts, and dozing cats. But wait! What's that sound in the yard? It's more guests who have arrived for the Halloween party! With bright artwork, die-cut pages, and a fun rhyming story, learning is brought to life!

Discover a whole world of learning fun with titles from the cheerful and interactive My Little World series. From colors and counting to opposites and first words, key early-learning concepts are presented in a bright, bold, engaging manner.
Patricia Hegarty began working in children's publishing more years ago than she cares to remember! As an editor she has worked on titles ranging from atlases to animal pop-ups, craft kits to crazy mazes, and sticker books to secret diaries.

Fhiona Galloway has been a freelance illustrator for many years and has enjoyed illustrating for a wide base of clients, including many children's publishers, which she loves. She lives in the west of Scotland with her husband, daughter, and giant schnauzer and when she's not working, likes to spend time walking, watching films, and reading.
Patricia Hegarty View titles by Patricia Hegarty
Fhiona Galloway View titles by Fhiona Galloway
Get toddlers ready for Halloween with this rhyming counting book.

Foil accents and layered, increasingly small die-cut windows invite young readers into a mildly haunted house. The windows are integrated into the Halloween decor on each spread, conveniently providing a way to easily grasp and turn the thick pages. The subtle shrinking of the windows by 1/16 of an inch with each page turn is disguised by outlining the windows on the recto page. On the cover, the windows are 1 ½ inch wide by 2 ½ inches high; by the time readers reach “9 sleepy cats,” the windows are only 1 inch by 1 ½ inch. The final spread with “10 trick-or-treaters” has no windows, just 10 costumed children surrounded by examples of the Halloween symbols counted earlier. The rhymes work so well even young children can supply the word needed to complete each couplet. The cadence is also consistent. Young children will notice the decorative parts of the pictures, but the objects to be counted in each illustration are clear. These are typical Halloween fare: a skeleton, jack-o’-lanterns, bats, ghosts, spiders, cats. Many children (and adults) will assume they should count four frogs until they notice the text that identifies them as “4 playful toads”—if they see it. On that page, the black lettering on a dark green background is particularly hard to discern.

This count is not a bit scary. (Board book. 1-4)--Kirkus
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Part of the My Little World series, this playful book of numbers features a haunted house on Halloween with concentric window shapes, peek-through pages and a fun rhyming story to teach children to count from 1 to 10.

Do you dare to enter the haunted house in this playful book of numbers? Young readers will learn to count from 1 to 10 when they meet a cast of adorable, cheerful characters who are all celebrating Halloween night. Step inside the house to meet glowing jack o'lanterns, hopping frogs, floating ghosts, and dozing cats. But wait! What's that sound in the yard? It's more guests who have arrived for the Halloween party! With bright artwork, die-cut pages, and a fun rhyming story, learning is brought to life!

Discover a whole world of learning fun with titles from the cheerful and interactive My Little World series. From colors and counting to opposites and first words, key early-learning concepts are presented in a bright, bold, engaging manner.

Author

Patricia Hegarty began working in children's publishing more years ago than she cares to remember! As an editor she has worked on titles ranging from atlases to animal pop-ups, craft kits to crazy mazes, and sticker books to secret diaries.

Fhiona Galloway has been a freelance illustrator for many years and has enjoyed illustrating for a wide base of clients, including many children's publishers, which she loves. She lives in the west of Scotland with her husband, daughter, and giant schnauzer and when she's not working, likes to spend time walking, watching films, and reading.
Patricia Hegarty View titles by Patricia Hegarty
Fhiona Galloway View titles by Fhiona Galloway

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Get toddlers ready for Halloween with this rhyming counting book.

Foil accents and layered, increasingly small die-cut windows invite young readers into a mildly haunted house. The windows are integrated into the Halloween decor on each spread, conveniently providing a way to easily grasp and turn the thick pages. The subtle shrinking of the windows by 1/16 of an inch with each page turn is disguised by outlining the windows on the recto page. On the cover, the windows are 1 ½ inch wide by 2 ½ inches high; by the time readers reach “9 sleepy cats,” the windows are only 1 inch by 1 ½ inch. The final spread with “10 trick-or-treaters” has no windows, just 10 costumed children surrounded by examples of the Halloween symbols counted earlier. The rhymes work so well even young children can supply the word needed to complete each couplet. The cadence is also consistent. Young children will notice the decorative parts of the pictures, but the objects to be counted in each illustration are clear. These are typical Halloween fare: a skeleton, jack-o’-lanterns, bats, ghosts, spiders, cats. Many children (and adults) will assume they should count four frogs until they notice the text that identifies them as “4 playful toads”—if they see it. On that page, the black lettering on a dark green background is particularly hard to discern.

This count is not a bit scary. (Board book. 1-4)--Kirkus

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