Trick-Or-Treat on Milton Street (Carolrhoda Picture Books) - Softcover

Bullard, Lisa

Softcover

ISBN 10: 157505793X ISBN 13: 9781575057934

Publisher: First Avenue Editions, 2004

Synopsis

Charley is sure that the first Halloween in his new house will be awful, until his stepfather takes him out trick-or-treating.

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From School Library Journal:

K-Gr 2-It's Halloween and Charley's in a new house on a new block in a new town. He doesn't know any kids and his neighborhood seems to be made up of stodgy old people. His mother claims to be sick so if he wants to go trick-or-treating it will have to be with his new stepfather. To Charley's surprise, the grown-ups in the houses they visit are dressed up in costumes, too. He and Dave meet a witch, a mummy, a skeleton, and a vampire, among others. Upon returning home to check on his mother, the boy is surprised by a "Welcome to Milton Street" party held in his honor and attended by all his neighbors. Charley decides that his new life will be just fine after all. Various perspectives and myriad details will keep children poring over the illustrations. Such minutiae as small ghosts, goblins, bats, and spiders offer additional action in the lower regions of the pages, while Charley's dog (also in costume) and cat investigate and react to the many creatures that haunt the night. Though the story is a bit wordy in places, it is a warm and fuzzy holiday tale.

Maryann H. Owen, Racine Public Library, WI

Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

From Publishers Weekly:

In this story from the creators of Not Enough Beds!, a boy moves to a neighborhood of adults and trick-or-treats with his dorky "new stepdad." Charley figures grown-ups can't carve pumpkins or bob for apples ("Wouldn't their false teeth fall out?"). He stands corrected when they hold a wacky masquerade, depicted in awkward but energetic colored-pencil images: "I think I'm going to like... Milton Street," he declares. Bullard gets Charley's grouchiness and the penultimate party scene just right, but the gee-whiz conversation with the stepdad that provides the resolution is as hard to swallow as a gooey caramel apple. Ages 3-8.

Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: First Avenue Editions
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 157505793X
• ISBN 13: 9781575057934
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Oeltjenbruns Joni