J is for Jack-O'-Lantern: A Halloween Alphabet is written by Denise Brennan-Nelson and illustrated by Donald Wu and is part of the lovely Alphabet series that is put out by Sleeping Bear Press. I've chatted up these books many times before, I truly do enjoy them and feel they're fantastic choices for libraries.Though this particular one focuses on the Halloween/Fall season, with costumes, spooky ghosts, pumpkins, and haunted houses, it follows the same format as the other books, with each page centering on a letter of the alphabet, simple for small children, with the sidebars containing facts for the older kiddos.
For example, the letter "F" is for Frankenstein. The reader gets a short rhyme for the littler ones: "Frankenstein is famous, frightening, freaky too. Create a monster of your own and see what he can do." And the sidebar is filled with info on Mary Shelley's novel, Frankenstein, as well as the inspiration of the movie.
Very cool books!! To enter to win one of your own, leave a comment on this post by Monday night at 11:59pm. U.S. entrants only please.
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36 comments:
We love these alphabet books. They are so much fun.
We also love these alphabet books and since my son loves all things halloween, this would be ideal for him!
melacan at hotmail dot com
These sounds excellent. I just love halloween books.
florida982002[at]yahoo[dot]com
I'd love a copy for my new library :)
My kids love halloween, and we were just looking at some halloween books at the bookstore yesterday. I would love to win this for them!
An alphabet book and a Halloween book all in one! Yay!! It sounds awesome!
These alphabet books are wonderful and the combination with Halloween is great. Thanks for this giveaway. saubleb(at)gmail(dot)com
I'm already thinking about fall, so Halloween isn't far behind (in my mind!)
Sounds great. I'd love to be included.
-Lauren
lauren51990 AT aol DOT com
This book looks wonderful! My daughter would love it and so would my students :)
Patti J
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Halloween is my husband's favorite holiday, so I know he'd love to read this one to our daughter!
Megan
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Sounds like fun & a great resource!
fun give away - thanks :)
Looks like a good book, please enter me into this drawing.
Thanks for hosting this giveaway.
jake.lsewhere[at]gmail.com
Boo!!! Love these abc books!
juli
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Fabulous book! I've got a 3 yo niece who would just love it! Thanks for the chance to win a copy.
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Here's my blog post: http://aseaofbooks.blogspot.com/2009/07/not-my-giveaways.html
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Family enjoys Halloween books, thanks!
delilah0180(at)yahoo(dot)com
I love alphabet books and this one is so cool. What a fun book! Thanks for the chance to win a copy!
espressogurl at hotmail dot com
I've also blogged about this giveaway here.
Thanks,
jake.lsewhere[at]gmail.com
This looks so cute! Please enter me!
BethsBookReviewBlog AT gmail DOT com
I'd love this for my daughter!
janemaritz at yahoo dot com
My grandson would love this book. Please include me in your giveaway.
Thanks
Debbie
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Very cute! Thanks for sharing it!
s.mickelson at gmail dot com
I teach kindergarten. This would be great!
mj.coward[at]gmail.com
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-lauren
lauren51990 AT aol DOT com
This alphabet book would be perfect for my daughter!
Thanks for the giveaway!
Amy B.
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I love alphabet books! My three year old is working on his alphabet, so this would be great!
My son's birthday is in October - this would make a perfect gift for him! thanks for the chance - alicedemskehansen at gmail.com
We always like Alphabet books and Halloween is a big favorite with my son :-)
marielay@gmail.com
I LOVE the alphabet books and don't have this one...great giveaway!
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sbfinnegan@yahoo.com
This is so darling! I would love it!
doot65[at]comcast{dot}net
I blogged about it here
Would love to share this with my boys.
rsgrandinetti@yahoo(dot)com
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