Shake Dem Halloween Bones

by Mike Reed (Illustrator)

Overview

It's Halloween night. The city is quiet. The city is still. But as the lights go down, the music comes up - and the guests start to arrive at the hip-hop Halloween ball! And oh, what a party it is. Told in hip-hop rhyming text, L'il Red Riding Hood, Goldilocks, Tom Thumb, and all of their fairy-tale friends come together for a rapping, stomping, shaking Halloween romp. Scoo-bee-doo-bee-doo-wah. Yeah!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780618070343
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	08/26/2000
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	32
Sales rank:	1,131,460
Product dimensions:	10.06(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.12(d)
Age Range:	4 - 7 Years

About the Author

At the age of nineteen, Mike Reed won a piano competition and was chosen to play Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No.1 with the Detroit Symphony Youth Orchestra. He lives in Minnesota.

Read an Excerpt

It’s Halloween night.
The city is quiet.
The city is still.
But as the lights go down, the music comes up — and the guests start to arrive at the hip-hop Halloween ball!

Text Copyright © 1997 by W. Nikola-Lisa Illustrations Copyright © 1997 by Mike Reed

Editorial Reviews

"This is a book for group sharing and joining in. Children will sing and dance and chant the refrain as they shake their bones with the hip-hop rhyming words and swirling pictures." Booklist, ALA

“The rhythm is infectious. . . . This should keep the storytime set jiggling to the last scoo-bee-doo-bee-doo-wah. Yeah!” Horn Book —

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