What's Everybuggy Reading: Sonya
Hallowilloween
by Calef Brown
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, 2010
What did you think about the poem "Monster Zoo" in this month’s Spider? Seriously spooky, right? (Even I, Sonya the Brave, shuddered at the eerie eye peering out of the yellow-green ooze in the background!) But take another look—did you notice the silly skeleton walking around in his crazy orange shorts?
It’s nice when Halloween stories and poems can be both spooky AND hilarious. Hallowilloween puts a silly spin on creepy monsters and witches and critters. From werewolves to a shrunken head named Duncan, these rhymes will keep you snickering the whole time you’re reading. I particularly enjoyed the poem “Mummy Unhappy,” in which a mummy complains that he wasn’t wrapped very well. My only disappointment with the book was the lack of buggies. What, Mr. Calef Brown, we’re not creepy-crawly enough for you? But I was happy to see that there was a poem in which a raven eats lots of tarantulas—good choice, Sir Raven! Damselflies are gorgeous but not very tasty; however, I’m sure spiders are delicious! (Right, Spider?)
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