Shivery Shades of Halloween: A Spooky Book of Colors

Reviewed by: Jill O'Connor - North Yarmouth Academy, Yarmouth, Southern Maine Library District

Review Date: January 8, 2015

Review

A color book told through the lens of Halloween. Siddals's rhymes are fantastic and make this book excellent, but the illustrations are too cartoonish for it to be excellent. It is still a great book and I would recommend it for a holiday collection. It's a lovely read-aloud and the colors are spot-on: "blaze of orange, stain of red, blot of black, smudge of brown, glint of yellow, wash of blue, shroud of gray, wisp of white, blotch of purple, tinge of green". The ghost peeking at the reader on the end paper is a fun touch.

Overall Book Score: very good

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About the Book

Author:

Siddals, Mary McKenna

Illustrator: Pickering, Jimmy

Illustration Quality: fair

Publisher: Random House

Book Type: picture book fiction

Genre: fantasy,folklore

Audience: preschool,grades k-3

Binding Type: trade edition

Binding Quality: good

ISBN: 9780385369992

Price: 12.99