Friday, October 27, 2017

Hallow-winners and more!

A few weeks ago, Kathy Temean posted a lovely piece on her blog, Writing and Illustrating, (THANK YOU, Kathy!) about Pet Crazy, my latest production with Janet Wong. We promised three lucky people (commenters, tweeters, posters) 2 free copies of the book and we have 3 winners!

 Kim Pfennigwerth
Donna Taylor
Elizabeth Castillo

 Congratulations! Your books will be on their way to you shortly!

 Halloween Fun
Meanwhile, if you missed my list of Halloween poetry books a few years ago, here's that link.

 And here are some additional poetry books to add to the Halloween fun:
  1. Caswell, Deanna. 2016. Boo Haiku. Ill. by Bob Shea. Abrams Appleseed.
  2. Cyrus, Kurt. 2013. Your Skeleton is Showing: Rhymes of Blunder from Six Feet Under. Ill. by Crab Scrambly. New York: Disney/Hyperion. 
  3. Hemphill, Stephanie. 2013. Hideous Love: The Story of the Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein. New York: HarperCollins.
  4. Heppermann, Christine. 2013. Poisoned Apples: Poems for You, My Pretty. New York: HarperCollins/Greenwillow.
  5. Herz, Henry. 2015. Monster Goose Nursery Rhymes. Gretna, LA: Pelican.
  6. Hoberman, Mary Ann. 2007. You Read to Me, I'll Read to You: Very Short Scary Tales to Read Together. New York: Little, Brown.
  7. Lewis, J. Patrick and Nesbitt, Kenn. 2015. Bigfoot is Missing! San Francisco: Chronicle.
  8. Vardell, Sylvia and Wong, Janet. Eds. 2015. The Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations. Princeton, NJ: Pomelo Books.
  9. Yolen, Jane and Dotlich, Rebecca Kai. 2016. Grumbles from the Town: Mother Goose Voices with a Twist. Ill. by Angela Matteson. Wordsong/Boyds Mills.
  10. Yolen, Jane and Dotlich, Rebecca. 2013. Grumbles from the Forest: Fairy Tales with a Twist. Ill. by Matt Hahurin. Honesdale, PA: Wordsong/Boyds Mills Press.
  11. Yolen, Jane and Lewis, J. Patrick. 2017. Last Laughs: Prehistoric Epitaphs. Ill. by Charlesbridge.
Do you have a birthday that dovetails with a major holiday? If you do, you know how it feels to be torn about which to celebrate and a little bit overlooked as people focus on the holiday and not your birthday (says the girl with the Christmas-y birthday!). That's one more reason to enjoy this poem by Joan Bransfield Graham from The Poetry Friday Anthology for Celebrations. 



I also stumbled upon these amazing Halloween birthday celebration ideas at Pinterest here. Check them out!

Meanwhile, head on over to Friendly Fairy Tales for more Poetry Friday fun!


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6 comments:

  1. Carol Varsalona3:08 PM

    I adore the Halloween holiday. It has always been a big celebration in my neighborhood and in the schools I was in. It is the day to celebrate the love of spooky tales. Thank you for sharing titles and goodies to make Halloween a treat, not a trick. Sylvia, I it so good to see two other review of Pet Crazy. There are lots of kudos for your latest book created with Janet.

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  2. Mary Lee6:32 AM

    Halloween is a major holiday at our house! Thanks for the list of Halloween poetry--perfect for a 10/31 read-a-thon! (Or 11/1 during the sugar crash...)

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  3. Linda B8:08 AM

    Like always, thanks for the list! I have the "grumbles" books, wonderful for October reading!

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  4. Sylvia Vardell10:30 AM

    Thanks, friends, for sharing my poetry and Halloween love! Here's to plenty of treating (and no tricks) for all of you for Halloween!

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  5. Brenda at FriendlyFairyTales10:22 AM

    Sylvia, Pet Crazy and your other books are wonderful, as are your lists. You are a wonderful, generous person.

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  6. Kay5:34 PM

    Thanks for sharing such a fun collection of books and poems for Halloween. It's a pretty quiet day around our house. Out in the country we don't get many trick-or-treaters, but we spend time this weekend admiring the pumpkin carvings that a local family puts on--over 200 carved pumpkins!

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