Review: At the Old Haunted House by Helen Ketteman/Illustrated by Nate Wragg #Halloween #ScholasticBooks

Summary:
There are all kinds of creatures in the house.  Count along as the creatures prepare for the Halloween Fright. The text, written in the pattern of the popular poem “Over in the Meadow,” makes reading aloud fun, while the cinematic illustrations set the scene for an unforgettable romp through the old haunted house.

My review:
I absolutely loved the rhyming in the book. Each monster had its own rhyme and place they lived in the haunted house.

For example:
"In the old haunted house 
in a vault made of bricks
 lived a vampire 
and his little vamps six."

Children begin to show up in costumes which makes the book even more interesting as the reader wonders what they are going to do when they encounter the monsters. The twist comes about two pages to the end and is fun!

I liked that the book also taught children to count as they turned the pages. As an extension to the read, children can point as the count. Good beginning math for younger ones.

Finally, the illustrations were top notch as they matched the individual rhymes perfectly.Mostly blacks, darker blues, reds, yellow and white gave the spookiness the book was trying to convey.

This book is a winner and gets 5 pumpkins from me.

Disclosure: I purchased this book for my own collections. The views expressed here are 100% mine and may differ from yours.

~Crypt Keeper, Michelle

Where to find the author:
Amazon