Boo!

From School Library Journal
Grade 2-5-Embellished with scary, fantastical illustrations, this book will appeal to the "Goosebumps" (Scholastic) crowd. Included are 28 original poems and limericks of uneven quality that are not quite up to the standard of Hubbell's earlier work. Some of the better poems include "Cat Curfew," "Bones," and "Phantom Squirrel," all illustrated with perfect spookiness. Serving apple pie made of slugs and a "cold puree of bugs" drink, "Halloween Diner" is sufficiently gross to delight even the most jaded youngster. Spread across single and double pages, the acrylic paintings are filled with horrifying creatures going about the business of being frightening. All in all, a good addition to shelves where Halloween books are in great demand.Judith Constantinides, East Baton Rouge Parish Main Library, LACopyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Booklist
Ages 5^-9. The limericks are better than some of the poems, which are uneven in rhyme and rhythm, but the lurid acrylic pictures will draw kids in, and the ghoulish subjects will make them shudder and shake. The supernatural is made physical with heaving graves, sobbing ghouls, and clattering bones, and the disgusting Halloween dinner includes a slimy snake slithering in the runny scrambled eggs. Hazel Rochman


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