Hap-Pea Halloween

by Keith Baker, Keith Baker (Illustrator)

Overview

Keith Baker’s New York Times bestselling peas celebrate Halloween in this picture book filled with kids’ favorite parts of spooky season!

It’s Halloween, and that means plenty of frightful fun for everyone’s favorite pea pals! Costumes and candy await in this treat of a Halloween tale.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781665940269
Publisher:	Beach Lane Books
Publication date:	07/15/2025
Series:	The Peas Series
Pages:	24
Product dimensions:	8.10(w) x 8.10(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Keith Baker has written and illustrated many acclaimed picture books for young children, including the New York Times bestselling LMNO Peas, 1-2-3 Peas, Little Green Peas, Hap-pea All Year, LMNO Pea-quel, My Octopus Arms, and No Two Alike. He lives in Washington state.

Keith Baker has written and illustrated many acclaimed picture books for young children, including the New York Times bestselling LMNO Peas, 1-2-3 Peas, Little Green Peas, Hap-pea All Year, LMNO Pea-quel, My Octopus Arms, and No Two Alike. He lives in Washington state.

Editorial Reviews

Offer this fun title early in the season to inspire and support the inevitable conversation about what to be for Halloween.

5/16/25 - School Library Journal

An enjoyably spooky outing starring a team of diminutive, endlessly inventive veggies.

05/01/2025 - Kirkus

2025-04-04
Baker’s lively legumes return for a Halloween adventure.

In lightly rhyming text, an unseen narrator proposes costume ideas: “A wicked witch with a pointy hat, / a ghost, / a goblin, / or the witch’s cat? / A skeleton with a cane to tap. / Or a flying, flapping, vampire bat!” The suggestions continue, riffing on classic monsters, children’s stories likePeter Pan, and fairy-tale characters such as Rapunzel and Goldilocks. The peas could dress up as animals, Albert Einstein, or “a centipede with fifty friends— // that’s a hundred feet from end to end!” On several spreads, the peas are dwarfed by large-scale lettered phrases like “October 31.” Using ladders, they carve hulking pumpkins with saws, relying on slings and ropes to remove pulp and carrying seeds and harvested chunks away in wheelbarrows. Baker uses the peas’ roundness to their advantage when outfitting them in costumes; one masquerades as an “evil blue” eyeball, others as the planets Earth and Saturn. Many don headgear like flower bonnets or the Statue of Liberty’s crown. A poignant bit of text also gently suggests that eschewing costumes is just fine, too: “Or be yourself… // a little green pea!” Jack-o’-lanterns glow yellow and orange against dark blue-violet spreads as the costumed, treat-seeking peas hit the neighborhood on Halloween night.

An enjoyably spooky outing starring a team of diminutive, endlessly inventive veggies.(Picture book. 3-7)

Kirkus Reviews