Always October
10 best books like Always October (Bruce Coville): Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China, The Witch Family, The Billionaire's Curse, Room on the Broom, The Witches of Worm, Big Pumpkin, Fat Men From Space, The Iron Man, Girling Up: How to Be Strong, Smart and Spectacular, Halloween
Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China
| Author | Ed Young |
| ISBN | 0399216197 |
"Not for the faint-hearted, Lon Po Po (Grandmother Wolf), is a tale of a menacing danger and courage....(Young's) command of page composition and his sensitive use of color give the book a visual force that matches the strength of the story and stands as one of the illustrator's best efforts." --Booklist"Absolutely...
This book is sheer perfection. It has many of the same qualities as Winnie the Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner -- young children who live out tremendous adventures in their imagination with characters who are typically treated by the author as though they are also real, though every once in a while perspective...
| Author | Richard Newsome |
| ISBN | 0061944904 |
Gerald Wilkins never considered himself a particularly exceptional thirteen-year-old. But that was before he inherited twenty billion pounds, a Caribbean island, a yacht, and three estates from a great-aunt he never knew. With this fortune, however, comes a letter. One from his great-aunt Geraldine....
| Author | Julia Donaldson |
| ISBN | 0142501123 |
The witch and her cat are happily flying through the sky on a broomstick when the wind picks up and blows away the witch's hat, then her bow, and then her wand! Luckily, three helpful animals find the missing items, and all they want in return is a ride on the broom. But is there room on the broom for so many...
| Author | Zilpha Keatley Snyder |
| ISBN | 0440497272 |
Autumn's witch-a-thon continues with my introduction to the fiction of Zilpha Keatley Snyder, her Newberry Medal winner The Witches of Worm. Published in 1972, the book arrived on my radar by virtue of its stellar reviews and while I'm very critical of what's become known as the Young Adult genre, I'm...
| Author | Erica Silverman |
| ISBN | 0689801297 |
A little bat uses brains over brawn in this not-so-scary Halloween picture book.
The witch has grown the biggest pumpkin ever, and now she wants to make herself a pumpkin pie for Halloween. But the pumpkin is so big she can't get it off the vine.
It’s so big the ghost can’t move it,...
| Author | Daniel Pinkwater |
| ISBN | 0440445426 |
When I was a little kid (second or third grade), I read a few books (I was forced to by parents or teachers), and I didn't like anything I read. In fact, I decided that I wasn't going to read anything any more. Then one of my siblings said that before I gave up on reading, I should read Fat Men from Space. I decided...
| Author | Robert E. Howard |
| ISBN | 0937986127 |
The Iron Man has fought since time immemorial -- with but one thought in mind -- to get to his foe and crush him. The centuries, the costumes, the weapons are different. The object is the same. The gore and savagery of Howard's tales of the ring is little removed from those exploits of Conan and Kull and Bran...
Girling Up: How to Be Strong, Smart and Spectacular
| Author | Mayim Bialik |
| ISBN | 0399548602 |
Mayim Bialik, star of The Big Bang Theory, puts her Ph.D. to work as she talks to teens about the science of growing up and getting ahead. A must-have book for all teenage girls.
Growing up as a girl in today's world is no easy task. Juggling family, friends, romantic relationships, social interests...
| Author | Rebecca Pettiford |
| ISBN | 1620311852 |
I get the need for little non-fiction books such as this, but I wish they were just a bit more creative. .
Five Little Pumpkins on Halloween Night
| Author | Sandra Magsamen |
| ISBN | 1338305786 |
Join these happy pumpkins in a cheerful rhyming countdown, in this chunky tall board book format!
Five little pumpkins
gigglingall day long.
The first one said,
"Let's sing a song!
Your little one will delight in this adorable, spooky, rhyming countdown! Discover how these...
A Pumpkin for Peter: A Peter Rabbit Tale
| Author | Beatrix Potter |
| ISBN | 0241358744 |
Hop into the world of Peter Rabbit and his friends in this charming board book!
It's a wild, autumn evening and the Rabbit family is on their way to get a pumpkin. The woods are windy and dark, but Peter Rabbit is definitely NOT scared. Not even a little bit. But on their walk, there are scary sights,...
| Author | Rachel Matson |
| ISBN | 1338318489 |
An adorable spooky twist on "The Teeny Tiny Woman" that's perfect for Halloween!
In the teeny tiny barn
Of a teeny tiny house
Lived a teeny tiny ghost
And a teeny tiny mouse...
This teeny tiny ghost is too little to be spooky. Will she find her voice... and a friend, too? Discover...
Trick or Treat, Pout-Pout Fish
| Author | Deborah Diesen |
| ISBN | 0374301913 |
A short and sweet mini-adventure especially created to introduce the youngest guppies to the popular Pout-Pout Fish.
It's Halloween under the sea! Mr. Fish is wearing his costume, but what is he dressed as? A goblin? An astronaut in space? A pirate at the helm of the spooky submarine? Tiny tots...
Miss Congeniality meets She’s the Man in this hilarious M!X novel about a girl torn between competing in a beauty pageant and playing on the boy’s baseball team.
Gabby’s summer vacation isn’t shaping up to be that great. Her dad was just deployed overseas, and Gabby is staying at her...
| Author | Salina Yoon |
| ISBN | 0307978087 |
Where's Boo? is a guessing game in board book form. Very young readers will love searching for Boo the black cat among familiar Halloween characters and objects—and finding something unexpected instead. Each page offers a hint of Boo, but it isn't until the last page that readers will find him. And...
| Author | Jennifer Richard Jacobson |
| ISBN | 0618472770 |
“Zoe’s the smartest,” said Vanessa, “I’m the best actress, and you, Winifred Fletcher . . .” she said, turning to Winnie. “You are the best—” Winnie waited to hear what Vanessa would say. It seemed as if Vanessa had to check every cupboard in her brain to find an answer.
How...
| Author | Daniel Pinkwater |
| ISBN | 0439155282 |
In this hip and hilarious novel by the incomparable Daniel Pinkwater, a trio of fat camp dropouts set out to subvert their community's" Anti-Fat" movement. Revenge was never so sweet...or so funny!
Fed up with the systematic jeering and abuse at Camp Noo Yoo, where frantic parents send their...
